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multi homing pressure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Wed Oct 19 10:48:58 2005

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:48:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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"Firms must defend against ISP clashes, warns Gartner
 Commercial row between ISPs shows vulnerability of single sourcing
 says analyst"
 http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=212391

Looks like it's about to enter the corporate rule book

"Gartner said every location that requires mission-critical
 internet connectivity, including externally hosted
 websites, should be multi-homed"

and end "tier 1" hosting

brandon

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