Lilli Flynn

Nov 4, 2024 | datacenterdynamics.com | DC Byte |Dan Swinhoe |Lilli Flynn

MAE-East, the first Internet exchange, was launched in 1992 in an office building at 8100 Boone Boulevard in Tyson’s Corner, Fairfax County, Virginia. It’s said around half of all Internet traffic in the early 1990s passed through this small point in Old Dominion. Set up by Metropolitan Fiber Systems and UUNET, MAE-East was then expanded across a cinder-block room in an underground parking garage across the street at 1919 Gallows Road around 1996.