Confirmed with the ATM MAE's Product Manager, Caleb Williford. There will be no connectivity between the "legacy" FDDI MAE and the new ATM based MAE. Current FDDI users will most likely pay for FDDI MAE connections for quite some time in addition to their new ATM MAE connection during transition. WorldCom/MFS is supposed to be "looking into incentives to migrate FDDI customers to the ATM side, (see below from Caleb Williford) K -- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:58:15 -0500 From: "J. Caleb Williford" <jcwillif@gwsmtp.wcom.com> To: jmparks@gwsmtp.wcom.com Subject: Fwd: Re: Scaling of interconnections at MAE-EAST and MAE-WEST -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Although we are looking into some incentives to migrate customers from the Legacy platform to ATM, our current pricing is pretty much inline with what the other ATM-based NAPs are offering (I've pasted the URLs with their pricing below for your reference). However, I'd like to point out that there are a number of aspects that are unique to the new platform (higher actual throughput, scalability to OC-12, PVCs, etc.). Please call me at your earliest convenience and we can have a chat about the specifics. -Caleb PacBell NAP: http://www.pacbell.com/products/business/fastrak/networking/nap/pricing.htm l Ameritecy NAP: http://www.aads.net/napPricing.htm "Bono, Vinny J (CORP, ITDG)" <VBono@comstor.com> on 09/04/98 01:02:27 PM To: Brian Horvitz <horvitz@shore.net> cc: nanog@merit.edu (bcc: Kyle Bacon/Fnsi/US) Subject: RE: MAE-EAST / MAE-WEST Interfaces

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Richard Almeida wrote:

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Just be careful here, MFS are launching new ATM MAE's certainlty at Mae-east - but you can only see other ATM connected people

You sure this is true?

Brian

This is absolutely true. -vb