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Re: Interconnects at NANOG
From: "Jonathan Heiliger" <loco () mfsdatanet com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:44:27 -0800
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-
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- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Ehud Gavron (Jan 03)
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- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Stan Barber (Jan 03)
- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Dave Siegel (Jan 03)
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- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Jonathan Heiliger (Jan 03)
- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Bill Manning (Jan 03)
- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Jeffrey Burgan (Jan 03)
- Re: Interconnects at NANOG Dave Siegel (Jan 03)