Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?

["Dwight A. Ernest (NOC Manager)" <Dwight () Ultra NET>]

At 10:18 AM 7/25/97 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:09:15 -0700 
> netops <netops () 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.  
>
> 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.