Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

Thu Jul 24 03:23:01 UTC 1997

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, netops 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.  

The Eli Lilly pharmaceutical corporation based here in Indanapolis
(www.lilly.com) is multihomed.  I would assume any corporation of this
scale which conducts worldwide research such as Lilly would place enough
value on their internet connectivity to obtain redundant connections.

 Aaron Abelard / aaron at abelard.com / http://www.abelard.com/
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