19 Dec
2002
19 Dec
'02
4:53 a.m.
My thoughts are Cogents primary customers are sites that are looking for very cheap bandwidth, which most likely is adult content. Therefore they would look more like a content provider than a transit provider.
Cogent is making in roads at a lot of Universities who want, as we all know, large amounts bandwidth but don't want to pay for it :) Whether the University is a sink or source of traffic typically comes down to whether or not they filter/rate-limit their peer-to-peer traffic. If they do, then the University will look like any traditional end-user ISP. If they don't, then the University will like like a hosting provider with lots of "content"... Eric :)