Tiers and other sales speak

Fri Jun 8 14:29:59 UTC 2001

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:24:25AM -0400, Jason Lewis wrote:
> Someone from MAE-Dulles called me and said they were a 2nd generation MAE.
> What in the world is that?

>From www.maedulles.net it looks like a router based exchange, that is
they run a router that everyone connects to for peering.  A pair of
GSR 12416's in fact.  Evidently they think moving from layer 2 to layer
3 makes them "2nd generation".  I'd say it makes them useless.

> TAG changed their name to MAE-Dulles.  My guess is to try to make people
> think they were somehow related to MAE-East.

I dunno about that.  There's been a trend lately in this area to identify
with the airport and "Dulles Toll Road", which is often dubbed the "Dulles
Technology Corridor".

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