[11256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Jul 23 23:00:45 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:51:05 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: netops <netops@flycast.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <41EC5181BCB6D011B54E00A024C8C2F20C89C2@flyswatter.flycast.com> [9707.23]
On Jul 23, netops <netops@flycast.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to
> multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running
> mission-critical applications on the Internet?
>
> So far, I only know of a couple, with PointCast being one of them.
There's also Gannett (the folks who own USA Today and a lot
of other newspapers and radio and TV stations.) But, with
all the stuff they own & do, it wouldn't be too much of a
stretch to consider them a web hosting facility (with a very
limited clientele.)
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