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A large Internet traffic switching station where ISP backbones meet and traffic moves between them. The two major MAE exchanges are MAE-East and MAE-West, located in the east and west coasts of the United States. MAE-East actually resides inside a parking garage, and had been known at one time to carry about one-third of the traffic on the Internet. In addition to the major MAE points, there are several smaller meeting p
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Metropolitan Area Exchange - In article , "TELECOM Digest Editor" wrote: So I got downtown to pay today and the lady takes my money then brings me a large box, and says "this is your new converter unit, I will have my husband bring it out to your house this afternoon and remove your old converter and swap this one in its place." After she assured me it would *not* affect my bill at all, she explained it was their 'new style converter unit' which is actually a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) combined with all the features which had earlier been on the box. This new converter unit looks exactly like the old one, but it includes an 80 gig hard drive, and the ability to record shows as you watch them, or record one show as you watch another, or watch 'live television' but stop it for a few minutes to go the bathroom or get a phone call, etc.Time-Warner here (Milwaukee) also offers a DVR, it's not quite free,they want $5/month for it, but that's inexpensive enough to be ofinterest. You can also watch one channel and record another, orrecord two channels at a time, or decide towards the end of show thatyou've only been watching that you want to save it and watch it againlater.I don't have one, we have two VCR's and that's met our needs so far.-- Gary Breuckman[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My television is a TV/VCR combination,and I do now and then watch movies I get from the Blockbuster storehere in town, but I think only one time I recorded to it from thetelevision set. I have found one interesting thing about the newDVR unit: I have a wireless cam in my back yard which focuses on abird sanctuary area which has a feeder, water and a couple nests. Byfiddling with the switches on the back of the DVR (and feeding thewireless cam into it input on the TV asI had been doing]) I can still watch over the birds from the comfortof my house but I can switch between a small picture inside the largerpicture (what Cable One calls PIP or 'picture in picture') to a fullscreen picture of the birds, as the cat torments them, or a pictureof what I had been watching or a little picture of one or the othersuperimposed on the other picture (the PIP feature). PAT]
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