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Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Jul 25 05:40:28 1997

To: netops <netops@flycast.com>
cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:09:15 PDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:18:01 +0100

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:09:15 -0700 
 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.  
> 

I think Fidelity Investments have also. There are a few companies in
the UK that have done this.

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