MAE-East

It began in 1992 with four locations in Washington, D.C., quickly extended to Vienna, Reston, and Ashburn, Virginia; and then subsequently to New York and Miami.

[1] The MAE predated the National Information Infrastructure plan, which called for the establishment of IXPs throughout the United States.

[2] Although it initially had no single central nexus, one eventually formed in the underground parking garage of an office building in Vienna, VA.[2] MAE-East was originally created in 1992, primarily by Scott Yeager of Metropolitan Fiber Systems (MFS) and Rick Adams of UUNET.

[7] MFS was the service provider offering metropolitan fiber, cross connects and switch ports for the ISPs to interconnect.

[9] MAE-East then established a collocation facility at 1919 Gallows Road in Vienna, in a cinder-block room in the underground P1 parking garage.