multi-homing fixes
Henry Yen
henry at AegisInfoSys.com
Sat Aug 25 00:19:28 UTC 2001
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:04:19AM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
> Leo is exactly right. The real reasons that folks multihome are:
>
> 1) Backbone and/or routing instability striking one upstream provider
> 2) Local loop/fiber cuts
>
> That's pretty much it.
how about,
3) The desire to have the customers of backbone providers with rather different
customer bases be able to efficiently reach a target site?
(example: a US provider with lots of business customers, a dial-up/DSL
concentrator, and a European provider with lots os EU customers;
you might choose to buy transit from all three)
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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