Hi all, We are getting ready to renew our fiber contract with our incumbent provider (Lightower, ASN 46887). We are happy with them, but are looking for alternatives. At the location in question we need about 200M. Cogent recently contacted us, and I shied away a bit, based on this conversation a few years ago: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-May/048181.html Have opinions changed since then? Or is Cogent still the "budget alternative to have in your mix, but better to stay away from if you need high-performance, reliable, mostly standalone bandwidth" (which is how I would summarize the consensus in 2012)? Thanks, Adam
On 11/Aug/15 16:00, Adam Greene wrote:
Have opinions changed since then? Or is Cogent still the "budget alternative to have in your mix, but better to stay away from if you need high-performance, reliable, mostly standalone bandwidth" (which is how I would summarize the consensus in 2012)?
We use Cogent. No major drama. Then again, we have 7x of the top global providers in the mix. My take is if you want to be single-homed, buy from a network slightly lower in the chain to the top providers. They'll have a good blend. If you want to buy from Cogent, buy from a slightly smaller ISP as well, or add one or two other global providers into your mix. I'd do this anyway, whether it was Cogent or not. Mark.
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