Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net
May 1998
Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi? Scott On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
May 1998
Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established? -- Omachonu Ogali missnglnk@informationwave.net http://www.informationwave.net
> How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi? The MAE, later MAE-East, began as FOIRL, which was 10mbps Ethernet over fiber. Later it was upgraded to a shared FDDI ring with Ethernet attached segments; later still, a mix of switched FDDI and switched 100Base-T and GigE. The FDDI portion was turned off last summer, about a year ago now, and what remains is a mix of GigE, OC-48 links, and a little bit of remaining 100Base-T. But mostly, it's fallen into disuse relative to Equinix Ashburn and PAIX-VA. -Bill
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?
fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link. There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet. Here is a big hint: http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html -mark
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Mark Kent wrote:
"Milo believes that some day there will be a working B-ISDN infrastructure. When that happens, there will no longer be a need for interconnection points like MAE-WEST." Or maybe not... Charles
-mark
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced. Is anyone out there still using them? I do have fond memories of fddi, about the only truly stable card on a grf if there was such a thing. Dave At 22:04 -0700 7/30/02, Mark Kent wrote:
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?
fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link. There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet.
Here is a big hint:
http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html
-mark
Anyone remember the Magnum's or MetroLans? :-) Jon Hardy wherrrrre arrrree youuu! ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Diaz" <davediaz@smoton.net> To: "Mark Kent" <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>; <scott@graphidelix.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: Re: MAE ATM
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.
Is anyone out there still using them? I do have fond memories of fddi, about the only truly stable card on a grf if there was such a thing.
Dave
At 22:04 -0700 7/30/02, Mark Kent wrote:
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?
fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link. There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet.
Here is a big hint:
http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html
-mark
Ah yes, the infamous FiberMux Magnum. Seemed to function as a register insertion ring. Was found to be susceptible to "capture effect". A prime example of data-ignorant, bonehead telco design. At 09:37 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, Vincent J. Bono wrote:
Anyone remember the Magnum's or MetroLans?
:-)
Jon Hardy wherrrrre arrrree youuu!
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Diaz" <davediaz@smoton.net> To: "Mark Kent" <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>; <scott@graphidelix.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: Re: MAE ATM
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.
Is anyone out there still using them? I do have fond memories of fddi, about the only truly stable card on a grf if there was such a thing.
Dave
At 22:04 -0700 7/30/02, Mark Kent wrote:
How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?
fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link. There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet.
Here is a big hint:
http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html
-mark
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.
There was a general belief that MFS only had one spare on each coast. When they swapped it in for a faulty box the one they pulled out became the "new" spare :-) -mark
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:39:17PM -0700, Mark Kent wrote:
I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.
There was a general belief that MFS only had one spare on each coast. When they swapped it in for a faulty box the one they pulled out became the "new" spare :-)
I remember that certain hardware revs on the NetWedges would corrupt certain byte patters by swapping bits a certain way. --Sam
limited trials began in very early 1998, and it was formally available to customers in mid 1998. - jsb On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 nanog@missnglnk.com wrote:
Out of curiousity, when were MAE East/West ATM established?
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Bill Woodcock -
bmanning＠karoshi.com -
Charles Sprickman -
David Diaz -
Jeff Barrows -
Mark Kent -
nanog＠missnglnk.com -
Robert M. Enger -
Sam Habash -
Scott Granados -
Vincent J. Bono