Address Management Issues for an Internet Hosting Center
An Internet hosting center is a data center that directly connects to the Internet's backbone. Space within that data center is rented to customers along with Internet connectivity. Such facilities may be owned and operated by an ISP, or they may be ISP-neutral in that they are owned by an organization that does not have its own IP backbone network. Such an organization must either engage in extensive peering relationships with ISPs (which is difficult without a backbone network) or purchase transit services from one or more ISPs. Regardless of how such a facility connects to the Internet, you would be hard-pressed to find any other environment that features as dense or complex a network ...
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