[120297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent $1500 GigE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Dec 15 16:01:35 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B27F72E.1000304@rollernet.us>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:59:39 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Babak Pasdar wrote:
>> Dear List,
>> I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per =
circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the =
fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense?
>=20
> $1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that =
price. The downsides with Cogent is that they occasionally get into =
peering spats that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no =
usable IPv6 (if that matters to you). I hadn't looked into it any =
further because I'm not located anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious =
look.
I'm pretty sure the system at $DAY_JOB is better at pushing bits near, =
but not quite over, the hard limit of a link than any other out there. =
And I am dead certain I could not get 1000 Mbps out of a GigE without =
serious packet loss.
Even assuming 900 Mbps (good luck), you're at $1.66/Mbps. Most people =
do 50%, so that would be $3/Mbps. Still probably a good price for 500 =
Mbps. But how much OpEx do you have to spend to ensure that link stays =
below 1 Gbps 24/7/365?
And if you only have 100 Mbps, though, it doesn't look so good.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
