[183168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Sun Aug 16 23:27:00 2015
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:26:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAAWx_pWn1nXLkFcsNvBTf8BCOg_4gWvLs9v2nsZvQf9KP7-hEg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, James Bensley wrote:
> Perhaps that depends on were are you in the world and your traffic types.
>
> I have worked with two UK ISPs that have Cogent as one of their
> transit providers, neither have had any problems in the 5+ years
> they've both had the Cogent transit, it has always "just worked".
And for the most part, that will be the case. If you're multi-homed, it's
really not a major issue. It's more when someone is:
1. single-homed to Cogent and they get into a peering/transit/pay-us spat
with one of the DFZ carriers, and Cogent gets de-peered. Single-homed
customers of $de-peering_carrier disappear from your view of the Internet.
2. single-homed to one of said DFZ carriers and a peering/transit/pay-us
spat arises with Cogent, and Cogent gets de-peered. Single-homed customers
of Cogent's disappear from your view of the Internet.
jms
