[152747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ameen Pishdadi)
Mon May 14 22:37:08 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FB1813C.7080207@thebaughers.com>
From: Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:38:34 -0500
To: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
No way they stack up against level3 or any of the other 4 big tier 1s but if=
you throw them in a blend with level3 there shouldn't be any issue and I wo=
uldn't pay more the .75 cents a meg for a gig=20
Thanks,
Ameen Pishdadi
On May 14, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com> wrote:
> The emails on the Outages list reminded me to ask this question...
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> I've done some searching and haven't been able to find much in the last 3 y=
ears as to their reliability and suitability as an upstream provider. For a r=
egional ISP looking for GigE ports in the Chicago/St. Louis area, is Cogent a=
reasonable solution? Our gut feeling is that they don't stack up against a L=
evel3 or Sprint, but they are being very aggressive with pricing to try and g=
et our business.
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> Thanks,
> Jason
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