Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

Thu Jul 24 02:51:05 UTC 1997

On Jul 23, netops <netops at flycast.com> wrote: 

> 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.  

	There's also Gannett (the folks who own USA Today and a lot
	of other newspapers and radio and TV stations.)  But, with
	all the stuff they own & do, it wouldn't be too much of a
	stretch to consider them a web hosting facility (with a very
	limited clientele.)

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