Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

From: William Herrin (no email)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2008 - 12:25:37 EDT

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    On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM, TS Glassey <> wrote:
    > So at one time Cogent was one of the lowest performing bandwidth providers.
    > Anyone have any responses to their current operations?

    They got into a spat with Telia a few months back. Severed those
    portions of the Internet that they serve from each other for about a
    week, disrupting all customers who depended on them exclusively.
    Similar situation with Cogent and Level 3 a couple years ago. I
    wouldn't count on it not to happen again.

    They're dirt cheap. If you have an ability to control the routing of
    your non-interactive traffic (such as email and downloads), Cogent can
    save you big bucks. If you have three upstreams and one of them isn't
    Cogent, you may be missing a trick.

    I don't think I'd pick them as my #1 or #2.

    Regards,
    Bill Herrin

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    William D. Herrin ................  
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    Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
    

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