Hi Justin,
I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years but by no means have I actively been keeping up.
We recently got a 10-gig port in Oslo from them. Price-wise they were competitive but absolutely not in a leauge of their own - a couple of other large providers matched their offers. In the end the main differencing factor for us was that their PoP happened to be in the same building as our data centre, so no local access was required (unlike the others). The link hasn't been up for very long so I can't comment on long-term reliability issues, but so far I've been _very_ happy with them, everything was up and running just a couple of days after we ordered, and the staff we've had contact with have been knowledgeable and helpful. The service has performed as expected: latency has been low and I haven't noticed any sub-optimal routing (trampolines) or packet loss. We multihome, so we're not too concerned about potential de-peerings. I would not single-home to any of the transit-free networks anyway, as any of them could end up on the receiving end of a de-peering. Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ Tel: +47 21 54 41 27