MAE ATM

Bill_Manning1 · July 31, 2002, 12:30am

May 1998

G_Scott_Granados · July 31, 2002, 4:57am

How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?

Scott

Bill_Woodcock · July 31, 2002, 5:03am

How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?

The MAE, later MAE-East, began as FOIRL, which was 10mbps Ethernet over
fiber. Later it was upgraded to a shared FDDI ring with Ethernet attached
segments; later still, a mix of switched FDDI and switched 100Base-T and
GigE. The FDDI portion was turned off last summer, about a year ago now,
and what remains is a mix of GigE, OC-48 links, and a little bit of
remaining 100Base-T. But mostly, it's fallen into disuse relative to
Equinix Ashburn and PAIX-VA.

-Bill

Mark_Kent2 · July 31, 2002, 5:04am

How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?

fddi, some remote with netedge boxes at either end of an atm link.
There were some 10baseT connections too, there was at least one
low end Catalyst switch dedicated to plain ethernet.

Here is a big hint:

http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html

-mark

Charles_Sprickman · July 31, 2002, 5:15am

http://www.nanog.org/2.95.NANOG.notes/mae-west.html

"Milo believes that some day there will be a working B-ISDN
infrastructure. When that happens, there will no longer be a need for
interconnection points like MAE-WEST."

Or maybe not...

Charles

David_Diaz5 · August 1, 2002, 1:24am

I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.

Is anyone out there still using them? I do have fond memories of fddi, about the only truly stable card on a grf if there was such a thing.

Dave

Vincent_J_Bono3 · August 1, 2002, 1:37am

Anyone remember the Magnum's or MetroLans?

Jon Hardy wherrrrre arrrree youuu!

Mark_Kent2 · August 1, 2002, 1:39am

I almost forgot about those netedge boxes, seems the one we had in DC
was about as reliable as a microwave with tin foil in it. I cant
remember how many times it or a card had been replaced.

There was a general belief that MFS only had one spare on each coast.
When they swapped it in for a faulty box the one they pulled out
became the "new" spare

-mark

Sam_Habash · August 1, 2002, 1:49am

I remember that certain hardware revs on the NetWedges would corrupt
certain byte patters by swapping bits a certain way.

--Sam

Robert_M_Enger2 · August 1, 2002, 2:15am

Ah yes, the infamous FiberMux Magnum.

Seemed to function as a register insertion ring.
Was found to be susceptible to "capture effect".

A prime example of data-ignorant, bonehead telco design.