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Re: Cogent Communications Info

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jul 5 21:45:23 2001

From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@21rst-century.com>
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To: "David U." <davidu@everydns.net>, "Nanog List" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:14:41 -0400
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>
>I have been reading about Cogent Communications recently and was wondering
how
>they can possibly offer 100mbps for $3000 ($1000 if you are an end-user, not
a
>service provider).  It just seems too good to be true and we know how that

>goes...

My understanding is that the peering is very underprovisioned,
and that much of the network is not yet finished.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

>
>Does anyone on NANOG have experience with them?
>
>Thoughts?
>
>For those who don't know:  Cogent offers 100 mbps at $3000 to service provider

>or 1000gbps for $20,000.  http://www.cogentco.com has some info but not much.

>
>thanks,
>-davidu
>

Marshall Eubanks

tme@21rst-century.com

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