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> > 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
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