[152752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Stevens)
Tue May 15 08:23:29 2012
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:21:53 -0400
From: Mark Stevens <manager@monmouth.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FB1813C.7080207@thebaughers.com>
Reply-To: manager@monmouth.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We use Cogent as one our upstreams and have had nothing but stability
and excellent support over the years. But as other said, you really need
multiple upstreams and cannot rely just on one whether it is Cogent or
any other provider.
Mark
On 5/14/2012 6:03 PM, Jason Baugher 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 years as to their reliability and suitability as an upstream
> provider. For a regional 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 Level3 or Sprint, but they are being
> very aggressive with pricing to try and get our business.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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