Cogent is the Family Dollar/Dollar General/$1 store of bandwidth
providers. It¹s cheap, they have a decent network and have quite a number
of servers on Cogent bandwidth. This means a good deal of web traffic is
headed toward cogent without much return. The Big players tolerate this
because the last time they tried de-peering it took out half the internet
(not really but caused some waves). I remember this because I had 400
web-sites on some cogent servers. All of a sudden a good majority of my
customers at the time could not get to their own web-sites.
It¹s a pretty decent business plan actually. Offer cheap bandwidth for
servers, get a bunch of sites hosted on that bandwidth, and the Internet
finds you. From that point on the Tier 1 and others are almost forced to
peer with you.
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From: Nick Olsen <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>, WISPA General List
<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:01:48 -0400
To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis
Can't speak for Cogent in St. Louis, But we have it here in Florida and it
works well. The 2 peer setup is a bit weird at first, but it works. The
support is good, You get a engineer on first call. Not like TW Telecom where
you call open a ticket and get a call back, The person that answers the
phone can make changes and such.
Nick Olsen
Network Operations
(877) 804-3001 x106
From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:47 AM
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cogent in St. Louis
That is certainly always a concern, but their number of peers is increasing
tremendously.
http://www.fixedorbit.com/stats.htm
They're the 9th largest in terms of IP space and 2nd largest in terms of
peered networks.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 9/10/2010 10:17 AM, David E. Smith wrote:
> I can't speak to Cogent in Saint Louis specifically, but be aware that Cogent
> has a bit of a history with peering disputes, and occasionally cuts off (or is
> cut off from) largish chunks of the Internet. I don't know if I'd want to
> single-home to Cogent, but as part of a robust multi-homed solution, sure.
>
> David Smith
> MVN.net
>
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