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The Cogent contract I've seen is a month-to-month. My suspicion would be that they get a critical mass of customers, then start increasing the monthly recurring, ala L3. Grant Kirkwood On 12/12/00 9:54 PM, Daniel L. Golding wrote: > > Indications are that Cogent is an MTU (multi tenant unit) provider, AKA a > bLEC, like Cypress or ARC. That's how they will get the necessary > economies of scale. Even so, $10/mb is no way to ever brake even. Seems to > be an exercise in transitioning money from VC to equipment and fiber > vendors as quickly as possible...I was impressed by the folks they had at > NANOG, though - seemed like very nice folks. Nice folks with a kind of > whacked business model, though. > > - Dan Golding > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Petrisko wrote: > >> Has anyone heard anything about Cogent Communications (www.cogentco.com) or >> done business with them? >> >> Their product is a dedicated 100Mbps of transit for $1000/month. >> >> Quick rundown: >> Metropolitan OC-48 rings, with no more than (24) 100Mbit customers >> on each. >> Nationwide OC-192 rings between the MAN rings with extensive private >> peering. >> >> Any feedback would be appreciated. >> >> thanks >> bill >> -- >> William J. Petrisko (WP5) Network Engineering >> [email protected] Axient Communications >> >> > > >
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