[32803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent Communications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (VIIS Network Operations Center)
Wed Dec 13 12:19:27 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:13:18 -0800
From: VIIS Network Operations Center <noc@viis.net>
To: "Daniel L. Golding" <dan@netrail.net>,
Bill Petrisko <bill@axient.com>
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The Cogent contract I've seen is a month-to-month. My suspicion would be
that they get a critical mass of customers, then start increasing the
monthly recurring, ala L3.
Grant Kirkwood
On 12/12/00 9:54 PM, Daniel L. Golding wrote:
>
> Indications are that Cogent is an MTU (multi tenant unit) provider, AKA a
> bLEC, like Cypress or ARC. That's how they will get the necessary
> economies of scale. Even so, $10/mb is no way to ever brake even. Seems to
> be an exercise in transitioning money from VC to equipment and fiber
> vendors as quickly as possible...I was impressed by the folks they had at
> NANOG, though - seemed like very nice folks. Nice folks with a kind of
> whacked business model, though.
>
> - Dan Golding
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Petrisko wrote:
>
>> Has anyone heard anything about Cogent Communications (www.cogentco.com) or
>> done business with them?
>>
>> Their product is a dedicated 100Mbps of transit for $1000/month.
>>
>> Quick rundown:
>> Metropolitan OC-48 rings, with no more than (24) 100Mbit customers
>> on each.
>> Nationwide OC-192 rings between the MAN rings with extensive private
>> peering.
>>
>> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>>
>> thanks
>> bill
>> --
>> William J. Petrisko (WP5) Network Engineering
>> bill@axient.com Axient Communications
>>
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