[38772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opinions about InterNAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David McGaugh)
Wed Jun 13 14:31:51 2001
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:52 -0700
From: "David McGaugh" <david_mcgaugh@eli.net>
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To: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>
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/24's are sufficient to multihome with most if not all providers out
there. Why not conventionally multi-home to 2 large well established
providers?
-Dave
"Seth M. Kusiak" wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We have a small network (5 /24’s) and we need to host our web applications
> internally because they access backend servers that absolutely cannot be
> collocated. I am thinking about getting 2 T1’s or fractional DS3’s from
> InterNAP from different P-NAPS (1 from Philly and 1 from NY) each circuit
> from a different CO
>
> The reason that I’m thinking InterNAP is because we don’t qualify for a /20
> and we would not be able to efficiently multi-home. It seems that InterNAP
> is perfect in our situation because they buy transit from multiple providers
> and claim to not have any black holes in their network.
>
> I hear many great things about InterNAP and I hear the opposite as well.
>
> Any thoughts would GREATLY be appreciated
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Seth
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