Heheh... I used to work for an ISP in the DC area and used to take trips to fix our mae east routers all the damn time

That is probably one of the oddest facilities I've ever seen, however most of the traffic is being moved out to Ashburn to the new UUNet campus out there... thats theoretically where "mae-east-atm" is located... although you'd never really notice it, since most of the atm drops right onto your providers backbone.. very nice stuff... BTW, That level 3 facility is sweet in McLean... but the bandwidth has gotta be $$.. less your going thru a reseller...