The Cogent contract I've seen is a month-to-month. My suspicion would be that they get a critical mass of customers, then start increasing the monthly recurring, ala L3. Grant Kirkwood On 12/12/00 9:54 PM, Daniel L. Golding wrote:
Indications are that Cogent is an MTU (multi tenant unit) provider, AKA a bLEC, like Cypress or ARC. That's how they will get the necessary economies of scale. Even so, $10/mb is no way to ever brake even. Seems to be an exercise in transitioning money from VC to equipment and fiber vendors as quickly as possible...I was impressed by the folks they had at NANOG, though - seemed like very nice folks. Nice folks with a kind of whacked business model, though.
- Dan Golding
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Petrisko wrote:
Has anyone heard anything about Cogent Communications (www.cogentco.com) or done business with them?
Their product is a dedicated 100Mbps of transit for $1000/month.
Quick rundown: Metropolitan OC-48 rings, with no more than (24) 100Mbit customers on each. Nationwide OC-192 rings between the MAN rings with extensive private peering.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
thanks bill -- William J. Petrisko (WP5) Network Engineering bill@axient.com Axient Communications