[11307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight A. Ernest (NOC Manager))
Fri Jul 25 13:41:10 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:38:32 -0400
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>, netops <netops@flycast.com>
From: "Dwight A. Ernest (NOC Manager)" <Dwight@Ultra.NET>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199707250918.KAA25206@genesis.DOMINO.ORG>
At 10:18 AM 7/25/97 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
>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.
We have several non-ISP customers who are now multi-homed. All of them are,
like PointCast, seriously in the business of providing net services of some
kind although they're not ISPs.
