[Ti] [OT] DSL Speed Test

Chris Scott crscott at newsguy.com
Thu Jul 24 11:19:17 PDT 2003


Ahhhhhh!

Dale Gardner wrote:

>on 7/24/03 11:55 AM, Chris Scott at crscott at newsguy.com wrote:
>
>>  What's your reference to 'MAE East and West or equivalent nodes"?
>>  Are those technical terms or a joke (Mae West) that I'm not getting?
>>
>>From whatis.com:
>
>A MAE (pronounced MAY ), originally an abbreviation for Metropolitan Area
>Exchange and now a service mark of MCI WorldCom, is a major center in the
>United States for interconnecting traffic between Internet service providers
>( ISP s).  There are three major MAEs in the United States: MAE-East in the
>Washington, D.C. area; MAE-West in the San Jose, California area; and
>MAE-Central in Dallas, Texas.  These three points along with several
>interconnection points previously identified by the National Science
>Foundation as network access points ( NAP s) form what is sometimes
>considered the national commercial Internet backbone .
>
>
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