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> > 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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