sporkme
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Re: Thats Just Depressing.
said by scooby  :I stand corrected. As of June 26th, 2008 they appear to be a tier 1 network by the book definition. Cogent is definitely not a bad provider, I would just never want to be single homed to them. Cogent is a perfect fit for a second or third provider. Bang for the buck is quite high. I just stumbled upon that Renesys blog today. I like it quite a bit.
Their other article about Cogent not sucking is really good:
»www.renesys.com/blog/2007/08/cog···on.shtml
At work we recently were dabbling in metro ethernet stuff. I have never, ever had a harder time trying to give people money. ConEd/RCN business, I'm looking right at you. How can you not know if you have f*cking equipment in a building or not???? |
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scooby
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I stand corrected. As of June 26th, 2008 they appear to be a tier 1 network by the book definition. Cogent is definitely not a bad provider, I would just never want to be single homed to them. Cogent is a perfect fit for a second or third provider. Bang for the buck is quite high. |
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sporkme
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said by scooby :said by Ignite :said by openbox9 :I don't believe they're tier 1. Believe it or not they certainly are  Cogent buys transit which means they are not tier 1. They don't buy transit anymore:
»www.renesys.com/blog/2008/06/cog···tml#more
In my book, that's Tier-1, marketing BS aside. Yes, they have paid-peering, but that's not transit. |
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scooby
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said by Ignite :said by openbox9 :I don't believe they're tier 1. Believe it or not they certainly are Cogent buys transit which means they are not tier 1.
"A Tier 1 Network is an IP network (typically but not necessarily an Internet Service Provider) which connects to the entire Internet solely via Settlement Free Interconnection, also known as settlement free peering" |
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