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Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

  • From: Dwight A. Ernest (NOC Manager)
  • Date: Fri Jul 25 12:50:04 1997 
At 10:18 AM 7/25/97 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:09:15 -0700 
> netops <[email protected]> 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.  
>> 
>
>I think Fidelity Investments have also. There are a few companies in
>the UK that have done this.

We have several non-ISP customers who are now multi-homed. All of them are,
like PointCast, seriously in the business of providing net services of some
kind although they're not ISPs.