MAE-WEST

  The folks at AMES and I cabled up the MAE-WEST facilities
  there today and are waiting on MFS to enable the port so
  that the two parts of MAE-WEST will talk to each other.

Ummm - I've been peering with NSI for about a week now.
It sure looks to me like the two parts of MAE-West are talking to each
other just fine.
  --asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)

Andrew Partan wrote:

Ummm - I've been peering with NSI for about a week now.
It sure looks to me like the two parts of MAE-West are talking to each
other just fine.

Well, I don't know which halves of MAE-West Alternet and NSI are on, but I
noticed that Autralia (which was previously entirely unreachable unless
you had NSFNet routing) became reachable via both Alternet/MAE-West/NSI
and Sprint/FIX-West/NSI about a week ago.

--apb (Alan Barrett)