Dear List, I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense? Best Regards, Babak -- Babak Pasdar President & CEO | Certified Ethical Hacker Bat Blue Corporation | Integrity . Privacy . Availability (p) 212.461.3322 x3005 | (f) 212.584.9999 | (w) www.BatBlue.com Receive Bat Blue's Daily Security Intelligence Report Bat Blue's AS: 25885 | BGP Policy | Peering Policy Bat Blue's Legal Notice Reducing IT Security Budget, Burden & Risk - Video | Article
Babak Pasdar wrote:
Dear List,
I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense?
$1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that price. The downsides with Cogent is that they occasionally get into peering spats that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no usable IPv6 (if that matters to you). I hadn't looked into it any further because I'm not located anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious look. ~Seth
On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
Babak Pasdar wrote:
Dear List, I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense?
$1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that price. The downsides with Cogent is that they occasionally get into peering spats that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no usable IPv6 (if that matters to you). I hadn't looked into it any further because I'm not located anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious look.
I'm pretty sure the system at $DAY_JOB is better at pushing bits near, but not quite over, the hard limit of a link than any other out there. And I am dead certain I could not get 1000 Mbps out of a GigE without serious packet loss. Even assuming 900 Mbps (good luck), you're at $1.66/Mbps. Most people do 50%, so that would be $3/Mbps. Still probably a good price for 500 Mbps. But how much OpEx do you have to spend to ensure that link stays below 1 Gbps 24/7/365? And if you only have 100 Mbps, though, it doesn't look so good. -- TTFN, patrick
On 12/15/2009 09:53 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
Babak Pasdar wrote:
Dear List,
I am getting a big push from Cogent on their full GigE for $1.50 per circuit. What are your experiences with Cogent in general? If on the fence, how would you use their service for this deal to make sense?
$1.50 per meg. ;) I'd probably take it just because I could at that price. The downsides with Cogent is that they occasionally get into peering spats that might hurt you if you aren't multihomed, and no usable IPv6 (if that matters to you). I hadn't looked into it any further because I'm not located anywhere Cogent is to give it a serious look.
~Seth
Hi Seth/List, Maybe I'm to harsh, but I just don't think of them as a full-transit. That makes it a lot easier to make a decision about adding them. We need atleast 2 full-transits and then possible add them to get the price down on a good part of the traffic. On the IPv6-side they have IPv6 in Amsterdam (where we are fairly close), but they don't even have full-transit in the 'normal' situation (think: HE). We do have peering with HE, so that's atleast something. But I don't yet know what else they are missing. That's how I see them. Have a nice day.
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Seth Mattinen