I had a discussion with them about a point to point circuit last year and ran into some weirdness around how burstable it would be for specific IP to IP streams as our use case was cheap circuit / high speed data replication between given
endpoints. The sales rep was suggesting to me that I’d see specific source/destination IP pairs capped at 2gbps regardless of circuit speed, which suggested to me it was not actually a point to point wave but some type of encapsulated service. We didn’t
get into whether it was usable for non-IP, etc.
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Cogent Layer 2
Are any legitimate beefs with Cogent limited to their IP policies, BGP session charges, and peering disputes? Meaning, would using them for layer 2 be reasonable?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP