[11595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Mon Aug 4 12:13:49 1997
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: netops@flycast.com (netops)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41EC5181BCB6D011B54E00A024C8C2F20C89C2@flyswatter.flycast.com> from "netops" at Jul 23, 97 04:09:15 pm
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Lincoln Silver
> FlyCast Communications
>
Is this thread dead yet?
If not, here is my 0.02 (baht)
Lots. And most of internal support staff consider themselves to be
"vertical niche" ISPs with a closed user base. In the days of outsourcing,
it is a reasonable viewpoint to maintain.
--
--bill
