RE: Cogent input

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () corp nac net>]

> I'm aware of some (regular?) depeering issues.  The NANOG archives have

AFAIR, there has never been a black-holing, just disappearance of routes. If you are properly multihomed, this is 
irrelevant and you continue to eat your ice cream and chuckle while they fight it out. It's amusing, really.

> I also know that their bandwidth is extremely cheap.  This of course
> creates an issue for technical folks when trying to justify other
> upstream options that cost significantly more but also don't have a
> damaging history of getting depeered.

It's not as relatively cheap as it used to be. A variety of others can be had in the same ballpark (Telia, Tiscali, 
Seabone, etc.)