[110596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Jan 12 14:51:56 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <33DF98FC-8389-46D0-BF00-C29243AD7448@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:51:49 -0500
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On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 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.
s/not//
Sorry for confusion.
--
TTFN,
patrick
