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) -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York