[104999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Jun 3 12:25:59 2008
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:25:37 -0400
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "TS Glassey" <tglassey@certichron.com>
In-Reply-To: <019201c8c593$cc742fd0$0200a8c0@tsg1>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, TS Glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net> wrote:
> So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers.
> Anyone have any responses to their current operations?
They got into a spat with Telia a few months back. Severed those
portions of the Internet that they serve from each other for about a
week, disrupting all customers who depended on them exclusively.
Similar situation with Cogent and Level 3 a couple years ago. I
wouldn't count on it not to happen again.
They're dirt cheap. If you have an ability to control the routing of
your non-interactive traffic (such as email and downloads), Cogent can
save you big bucks. If you have three upstreams and one of them isn't
Cogent, you may be missing a trick.
I don't think I'd pick them as my #1 or #2.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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