intended to be a successor to the FDDI. MAE-East ATM was trialed in 1997 and went into production in 1998. ATM allowed for higher-speed access (e.g. 155mbps-622mbps) and Private Virtual Connections (PVCs), which was conceived of as a solution to some problems in which a single connected network could spread to effect the entire exchange. Frame Relay Access was added in 2002-2003 (155mbps-2.5gbps). In 2003, MAE-East ATM/Frame facilities were located at Boone Blvd, Sunrise Blvd, Tyco Road and Ashburn VA. By the time it closed down in 2009, many of the ISPs previously connected to MAE-East had moved to Equinix Ashburn, a nearby Internet exchange built on gigabit Ethernet. See also MAE-West Internet Exchange Point (IXP) Federal Internet Exchange (FIX) Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) Network Access Point (NAP) References External links Photograph of 1919 Vienna parking garage, the original mae-east built in a parking garage in the 1990s. . See Mae Services White Paper (2005) for historical information. "How Equinix beat MAE-East," a blog written in 2009. Internet exchange points in the United States History of the Internet 1992 establishments in the United States