Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

Thu Jul 24 02:37:34 UTC 1997

netops writes:
> 
> 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?  

Yes, several.  As far as I can see, yes.  The question I'd ask would
be why does it matter if an AS is "ISP" or "non-ISP"?  The domain of
clueful people is far and away NOT limited to the domain of ISP
networkers.  If an organization is sizeable enough and  knows what 
it is doing, or can hire or rent someone who does, more power to them.

Cheers,
Joe

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