On Jan 3, 3:43pm, Dave Siegel wrote:
When the TLA's are expanded into their actual meanings, Metropolitan Area Exchange, and Network Access Point, there does not appear to be a great deal of difference between the two, except that one is a term that MFS Datanet started, and the other is one that the government sited as the term for the exchanges they were helping to fund/promote.
I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to the MAE being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined by Andrew Partan of UUNET. Perhaps term IXP, IntereXchange Point could be used. Too many acronyms has long been a trend in technology. :-) -jh-
On Jan 3, 3:43pm, Dave Siegel wrote:
When the TLA's are expanded into their actual meanings, Metropolitan Area Exchange, and Network Access Point, there does not appear to be a great deal of difference between the two, except that one is a term that MFS Datanet started, and the other is one that the government sited as the term for the exchanges they were helping to fund/promote.
I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to the MAE being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined by Andrew Partan of UUNET.
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. -- --bill
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
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