[177840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson - MTIN)
Fri Feb 6 12:14:35 2015
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From: Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists@mtin.net>
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:14:27 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Cogent has been very good in my experience. They have some issues they =
need to work out, but are pretty solid. We have had some issues where =
they have said they are doing maintenance on such and such night and it =
comes a day early. We have also seen some routing weirdness when it =
comes to route selection.
Ive had a connection, server, something on Cogent for about 12 years =
now. I started with a server in Chicago at the Board of Trade building. =
At that time Cogent was the home of cheap web-hosts, ware, and porn. I =
remember a year or so after I had that server the big folks like ATT and =
some others de-peered with Cogent. Many of the web-sites I was hosting =
were simply not reachable for a few days from a big majority of the =
Internet. I think the sheer amount of web-sites and content convinced =
the big folks to bring up the peering. I was working for a large =
dial-up ISP at the time and remember getting call after call about =
someone not being able to reach their favorite web-site.
Cogent tech support has always been top notch. They answer the phone =
and I have always been directed to an engineer that can help right away. =
As of 6 months ago their ticketing system still sucked, but I think =
everyone=E2=80=99s does. LOL.
This is my on-list stuff. I can go into more detail if anyone wants to =
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Justin Wilson j2sw@mtin.net
http://www.mtin.net
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> On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Jack Stonebraker =
<Jack.Stonebraker@mygrande.com> wrote:
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> My organization is currently shopping for some additional Transit =
Capacity to augment our existing interconnects. We've got around 8 =
distinct AS's that we're receiving transit routes from, followed by a =
handful of Public IX's and Private PNI's to AS's that warrant them. =
That said, the networks that are on our radar are Cogent and NTT. I've =
done some due diligence poking around on their Looking Glass, but I'd =
love to hear any user experiences from the community, both from a Layer =
3 Perspective, as well as an Operational Perspective (Working with the =
businesses themselves). Feel free to contact me off-list and thanks in =
advance for your time.
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> Jack Stonebraker | Sr. IP Network Engineer
> (512) 878-5627 | =
jack.stonebraker@mygrande.com<mailto:john.hogan@mygrande.com>
> Grande Communications Networks
> 401 Carlson Circle | San Marcos, Texas | 78666
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