[11258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Abelard)
Wed Jul 23 23:28:25 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:23:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Abelard <aaron@abelard.com>
To: netops <netops@flycast.com>
cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <41EC5181BCB6D011B54E00A024C8C2F20C89C2@flyswatter.flycast.com>
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, netops 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.
The Eli Lilly pharmaceutical corporation based here in Indanapolis
(www.lilly.com) is multihomed. I would assume any corporation of this
scale which conducts worldwide research such as Lilly would place enough
value on their internet connectivity to obtain redundant connections.
Aaron Abelard / aaron@abelard.com / http://www.abelard.com/
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