[36360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Apr 3 18:10:09 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:05:36 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> said:
> OK. So now you have a business with their servers in a colo, all nice
> and protected. Now they need their offices multihomed, so that when
> UUNet's cloud falls over, or some DSL provider goes under, they still
> have the ability for the humans in their offices to get out to the
> Internet.
Or access to their servers. What is on that server may be critical to
your business. When the server is in your office, your employees have
good access to it but the Internet may not, and if you put the server in
a co-lo, the Internet has good access to it but now your employees
don't.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
