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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Cogent Communications Info
Considering that Cogent is selling transit to ISP's for $20 less than Williams "firesale" pricing I would hope they have found a better deal:) On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Daniel Golding wrote: > > The wierd thing here is that Williams doesn't have an overabundance of > peering either. They had been SBC's primary IP transit provider for their > DSL product, but rumor has it that SBC has selected other providers to > replace them. Perhaps Williams has massive transit contracts of their own, > and they are trying to cut their losses? Reselling transit for $50/meg is > better than not reselling it at all. > > I doubt Cogent's long term plans are dependent on Williams' firesale transit > pricing. > > - Daniel Golding > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > > Vincent J. Bono > > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:03 PM > > To: David U. > > Cc: Nanog List > > Subject: Re: Cogent Communications Info > > > > > > > > Just to test them out we ordered their "private line" service (rather than > > the transit product) where it is $10/meg point to point, i.e. > > 100Mbps cross > > country is $1,000 per end per month. Its a tunneled IP product > > with an ATM > > infrastructure. > > > > They are already 90 days overdue and show no signs of delivery > > anytime soon. > > > > They are heavily involved with Williams for the ATM backbone and > > I know that > > Williams is selling IP transit to big telecom accounts for as little as > > $50/meg. Since they don't seem to have a lot of peering possibly they are > > filling in the gaps with Williams transit and coming up with a skewed cost > > model? > > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David U." <[email protected]> > > To: "Nanog List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:40 PM > > Subject: Cogent Communications Info > > > > > > > > > > I have been reading about Cogent Communications recently and > > was wondering > > how > > > they can possibly offer 100mbps for $3000 ($1000 if you are an end-user, > > not a > > > service provider). It just seems too good to be true and we > > know how that > > > goes... > > > > > > Does anyone on NANOG have experience with them? > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > For those who don't know: Cogent offers 100 mbps at $3000 to service > > provider > > > or 1000gbps for $20,000. http://www.cogentco.com has some info but not > > much. > > > > > > thanks, > > > -davidu > > > > > > >
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