RE: Cogent

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bradford Ley
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Cogent

Jeff,

I work at an ISP in Colorado using Cogent as one of our two upstreams (Level
3 being the other one). For the price, they're hard to beat.

Only problems I have ever had with them is with the quality of their tier-1
support, on the occasion that I need it (their engineers and NOC are
generally up to par). It took a few escalations to managers to get
everything sorted back out. They haven't had any major (read: noticeable)
problems with other peers beyond the ones you mentioned. We just did an
uptime assessment and that service is more than five 9's of uptime over the
last 12 months (which includes on incident that they didn't cause).

All that being said, we almost always get better routes from Level 3 to
popular content sites. Cogent often passes us through Internap or Savvis to
get where we're going. I'm not sure I would use them as my sole provider,
but they make a good complement to other upstream providers.

Best of luck,
--Brad

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Bradford Ley -- Network Engineer

FRII

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jeff Koch
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cogent


Hi All:

We're considering purchasing some IP connectivity from Cogent. I know they
had some problems with Level 3 back in 2003 and with Telias in Norway two
years ago but their pricing within New York City is very reasonable (did I
say cheap). Any comments or thoughts about Cogent - latency, reliability,
dependability, peering relationships, etc.? There's not much on the net
about them these days.

Thanks


Best Regards,

Jeff Koch, Intersessions

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