MAE-Central

Tue Feb 3 16:01:22 UTC 1998

In message <199802030422.XAA06212 at merit.edu>, "Kent W. England" writes:
>At 09:28 AM 2/2/98 , Phil Howard wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0128mae.html
>>
>>How about your password to access this?  Or were you quoting the entire
>>article?  Where will this MAE-Central be located?
>>
>
>Sorry, but I can't find a Worldcom press release anywhere. I don't feel
>right cutting and pasting the entire article, but the location is slated to
>be Dallas.
>
>(BTW, isn't it scandalous that MFS would copy the PacBell NAP and build a
>MAE using S'com BPX switches? I went back and checked the nanog archives
>and compiled a list of all the ISPs that swore they would never connect to
>an ATM NAP. How many are planning to disconnect from the MAEs when the ATM
>switches come up?)
>
>--Kent

Its particuarlly bad that MFS starts this when they already have a
MAE-Dallas based on their standard cisco platforms.  The local
ISPs put together an alternative interconnect to reduce costs
and MFS comes out with this shit.  I know one company that
isn't going to be doing any new business with MFS/Worldcom.

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