[110595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Jan 12 14:47:15 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <496B8933.5050605@rollernet.us>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:11 -0500
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On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>> Mike,
>> Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed
>> any
>> serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might
>> also
>> try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or
>> BtN.
>
> (resend due to subject filter)
>
> Plus if you had direct connectivity to Cogent, their peering status
> with
> others wouldn't affect you anymore. Personally, I've seriously
> considered this as a reason to get a connection from Cogent.
If you are not single-homed, you have no issues reaching Cogent even
during a "peering war" - unless Cogent depeers / gets depeered from -
both- (all) of your upstreams at the same time. So what value is
there to add Cogent?
If you are not single-homed, then reaching Cogent is not even close to
your only problem.
--
TTFN,
patrick
