[11344] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gabriel M. Schuyler)
Sun Jul 27 14:17:21 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.970724110807.7160E-100000@linus.gannett.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:10:41 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Gabriel M. Schuyler" <schuyler@vorpal.net>
What's interesting to me is the few brave souls who are geographically
dispersed corporations using their own WAN for multihoming. If you already
have leased lines between your offices and each office has its own internet
access through a local provider, you can protect against failures of the
local providers by rerouting over the WAN leased-lines to another office
and popping out on *their* local provider's link.
Very cost effective, since you already are paying for the "backup link"
anyways as part of your enterprise network.
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gabriel m schuyler, outlaw schuyler@vorpal.net
vorpal network - san francisco http://www.vorpal.net/
