Re: Interconnects at NANOG

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I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to th e MAE being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined by Andrew Partan of UUNET.

I had thought that MAE was the acronym MFS used to descibe the service which provided a virtual ethernet over the MFS fiber infrastructure.

I think I told John Hardie a couple years back (when MAE-East) went to FDDI) that we could still use MAE as Metro Area Exchange.

I guess the "A" could also stand for ATM ;-) Jeff