-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, the network really wasn't lit at the time of the last discussion. Is anyone on-list a cogent customer? Has anyone done or heard about any peering with cogent? If so what type of pipe? Could they do a lot of damage if some customers start to really push traffic? (ie: 30 "big" customers pushing 500 megs each and throwing an extra 15gigs/sec onto mae-east). Matt - -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Rude Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:13 PM To: Murphy, Brennan Cc: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: cogentco.com technical analysis? I believe that this is a topic that has been brought up before. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-12/threads2.html#00175 - ---- Steve Rude steve@rudedogg.com On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Murphy, Brennan wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Cogent Inc. They are one of the companies offering high speed internet (fast ethernet/GigE) at rock bottom prices. :-)
I know the adage "you get what you pay for" typically applies but I was looking for some concrete end user experiences. I'm not trying to break the charter of this mailing list by devoting a discussion to various emotion based opinions about a particular vendor. I am actually seeking technical opinions on whether what is being advertised is actually being delivered with reliability. More specific questions: do Cogent's peering arrangements seem adequate to the amount of bandwidth they are offering? Or are these major bottlenecks to an otherwise good network? Are any of Cogent's competitors worth taking a look at? Any non-obvious reason why? Does anyone have any statistics to provide that paints a picture about what you get from their products? I guess if enough people complained that this was too off topic, I could still request direct replies and I could put a summary together for any interested parties. But I reread the charter before putting this together and it seems fair game. When is Worldcom, et al going to start offering these products? ( maybe when companies like cogent start succeeding?) Thanks, -BM
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