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Jason Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: > > Someone from MAE-Dulles called me and said they were a 2nd > generation MAE. What in the world is that? > > TAG changed their name to MAE-Dulles. My guess is to try to > make people think they were somehow related to MAE-East. > > No mention of tier at all....it's a new "generation". > > jas These guys seem to be trying to leverage the MAE "brand" for their own benefit, while trying to trash the existing MAEs at the same time for their own good. They sell transit. They buy from the people that they show as being present at their "MAE." I suspect that you can indeed inter-connect with other entities at their facilities-- through their /layer three routers./ This page has to be the most humorous: http://www.maedulles.net/topology.htm ...with this bit about their constraint-based BGP-4 being my favorite: "Advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) directs traffic from its point of origin to the core class router of the least congested backbone, bypassing the congested public peering points and virtually eliminating latency and packet loss. " I can't wait for the "White Papers" link to become active. I'm guessing they didn't get permission to use the MAE acronym, [which presumably is trademarked] or the likeness of Dulles Airport in their logo. When they spoke of the "new generation," did they mention generation d? - jsb -- Jeff Barrows SVP, Global Networks Aleron Internet http://www.aleron.com +1 703 287 4224 Office
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