[1203] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Interesting new player
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu Aug 22 08:46:47 1991
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe2@BBN.COM>
To: edtjda@magic322.chron.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9108212123.AA03159@magic322.chron.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 08:45:01 EDT
>
>Metropolitan's new services are protocol-transparent. Using technology
>designed primarily by Stan Hanks, they pick up the information,
>encapsulate it, transmit it and offload it in a process they swear
>is the hottest thing for network security since sliced bandwidth. :)
>
Joe, we call those things "bridges" where I come from. --Kent
