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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent service
On 19 Sep 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: > > Does anyone have any comments (good or bad) about Cognet as a transit > > provider in New York? > > No. But we (ISC) are using them in San Francisco (at 200 Paul Street) and > they've been fine. They seem to have above-normal congestion at their peering points. They are prepending 2x on their Sprint and MFN(AboveNet) transit. I guess this has shifted too much traffic to the peering they acquired through PSI and NetRail. They also have very poor routing for some ASNs like 577 (preferring long peered routes over much shorter transit routes). I was also very surprised to see they prepend on BGP announcements to their own customers. If you're multihomed then it means a bit more work to try to avoid paying for a mostly empty Cogent pipe. If financial stability is a concern for you, then I suggest reading the debt covenants in their SEC filings. On one hand I doubt they'll be able to live up to them by Q2 2003, but then Cisco is their main investor so the consequences may not be that bad if they fail to meet them. -Ralph
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