[152745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Mon May 14 21:34:35 2012
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:33:27 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Michael J McCafferty <mike@m5computersecurity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1337034832.24326.49.camel@barney>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I agree with John. You can't use them as your only provider, but you
> wouldn't do that with *any* provider. I will add that they answer the
> phone quickly, and the person who answers usually has a clue, has access
> to the routers, and can be helpful. It's one of the benefits that they
> really only sell one product. Honestly, I think their support is better
> than most and the deliver what they say or better.
>
> In the past the had a A peer / B peer setup that was a little funky, but
> I think they are getting rid of that as they upgrade hardware throughout
> their network.
I like the separate peers. Its a nice concept in theory and gives you
the flexibility to easily integrate it into an RR setup.
I wouldnt mind more providers offering it as an option without having to
be educated as to how it works.
Joe
