[38761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cogentco.com technical analysis?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Barros)
Wed Jun 13 00:35:33 2001
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:34:44 -0400
From: Andrew Barros <abarros@tjhsst.edu>
To: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Cc: "'Steve Rude'" <steve@rudedogg.com>,
"'Murphy, Brennan'" <Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010613003444.X10530@tjhsst.edu>
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I'm not a cogent customer right now, but they were going to donate
some connectivity to a group i volunteer with (www.kidzonline.org),
I think I have some technical materials at the office.
-ajb
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:36:39PM -0700, Matt Levine wrote:
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->Well, the network really wasn't lit at the time of the last
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->Is anyone on-list a cogent customer? Has anyone done or heard about
->any peering with cogent? If so what type of pipe?=20
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->Could they do a lot of damage if some customers start to really push
->traffic? (ie: 30 "big" customers pushing 500 megs each and throwing
->an extra 15gigs/sec onto mae-east).
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->Matt
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->From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf
->Of Steve Rude
->Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:13 PM
->To: Murphy, Brennan
->Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu'
->Subject: Re: cogentco.com technical analysis?
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->I believe that this is a topic that has been brought up before.
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->http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-12/threads2.html#00175
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->Steve Rude
->steve@rudedogg.com
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->On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Murphy, Brennan wrote:
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->> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Cogent Inc. They
->> are one of the companies offering high speed internet (fast
->> ethernet/GigE) at rock bottom prices. :-)
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->> I know the adage "you get what you pay for" typically applies but I
->> was looking for some concrete end user experiences. I'm not
->> trying to break the charter of this mailing list by devoting a
->> discussion to various emotion based opinions about a particular
->> vendor. I am=20
->> actually seeking technical opinions on whether what is being=20
->> advertised is actually being delivered with reliability. More
->> specific questions: do Cogent's peering arrangements seem adequate
->> to the=20
->> amount of bandwidth they are offering? Or are these major
->> bottlenecks to an otherwise good network? Are any of Cogent's
->> competitors worth taking a look at? Any non-obvious reason why?
->> Does anyone have any statistics to provide that paints a picture
->> about what you get from their products? I guess if enough people
->> complained that this was too off topic, I could still request
->> direct replies and I could put a summary together for any
->> interested parties. But I reread the charter before putting this
->> together and it seems fair game. When is=20
->> Worldcom, et al going to start offering these products? ( maybe
->> when companies like cogent start succeeding?) Thanks,
->> -BM
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