[183073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Aug 12 02:26:20 2015
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To: Adam Greene <maillist@webjogger.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:26:12 +0200
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On 11/Aug/15 16:00, Adam Greene wrote:
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> Have opinions changed since then? Or is Cogent still the "budget alternative
> to have in your mix, but better to stay away from if you need
> high-performance, reliable, mostly standalone bandwidth" (which is how I
> would summarize the consensus in 2012)?
We use Cogent. No major drama. Then again, we have 7x of the top global
providers in the mix.
My take is if you want to be single-homed, buy from a network slightly
lower in the chain to the top providers. They'll have a good blend.
If you want to buy from Cogent, buy from a slightly smaller ISP as well,
or add one or two other global providers into your mix. I'd do this
anyway, whether it was Cogent or not.
Mark.
