Ah, how quick we are to jump. Cogent's push lately has been businesses with offices in MTU's across the united states. Idea: Get rid of your expensive, low bandwidth frame relay PVC's all over hell and back, and get 100 megs with Cogent. You save mad cash. A company that can turn up a new office and have 100 megs bandwidth to all the other offices for file sharing, e-mail, remote backups, etc, .. well -- this changes the backoffice-workings of the brick-and-mortar. Cogent isn't offering 100 meg transit to just anyone for this price point -- their ideal customer is a company that pays $1500 a month for a T1 to xyz.com .. and their other ideal customer is a company with offices in various MTU's that Cogent is in - and getting rid of the inter-office PVC's and running the network over Cogent's fiber. Sounds like a good deal to me. We signed up a couple weeks ago to light up a little over a half dozen offices. The biggest advantage is not the transit (we do under 5 meg avg), but the office-to-office communications. Turn up VoIP and there's an added communications savings. <shrug> Previously, VIIS Network Operations Center said:
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
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