[177858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sat Feb 7 03:17:20 2015
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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 10:17:07 +0200
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 5/Feb/15 22:05, Bryan Tong wrote:
> We've been on Cogent for 3 years now.
>
> I have to say the experience has been nice. Good sales, great NOC. We e=
ven
> had a dirty fiber issue with their uplink (due to the MMA owner) and Co=
gent
> stayed on the phone with me for hours and got it handled before we hung=
up
> the phone. So great NOC too.
We pick up Cogent as one of our upstreams, primarily for who they have
on-net that others do not (or can be accessed "shorter" through).
We haven't had any major issues. The sales folk were persistent, but the
turn-up was good as has been contact with the NOC (primarily to get BGP
prefixes updated regularly).
We use NTT too, and a bunch of others, and the experience has generally
been the same, i.e., nothing major to complain about.
Then again, close to 70% of our non-African traffic is peered away at
the 4x major exchange points in Europe, and the upstreams only cover the
rest. So there could be some co-relation there.
Mark.
