Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

[Martin List-Petersen <martin () airwire ie>]

On 23/01/18 02:12, Michael Crapse wrote:
> Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering.
> Doesn't mean that it's good transit.
> Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric,  actually a tier 2
> provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s.

I'd still categorise Hurricane a lot better than Cogent.

Both quality and customer service wise.

/M




> On 22 January 2018 at 19:07, Martin List-Petersen <martin () airwire ie> wrote:
>
> > On 22/01/18 20:05, Mike Hammett wrote:
> >
> > > I much prefer using WDM transport as opposed to Ethernet\VPLS transport
> > > due to it being significantly harder (I try not to say impossible) to
> > > oversubscribe. That said, it isn't always available at a decent rate at a
> > > given location.
> > >
> > > Cogent has a reputation (right or wrong) for running things a little hot.
> > >
> > > Have any of you used Cogent Ethernet\VPLS services? What are you
> > > experiences? Offlist is fine if you don't want it public.
> >
> > Never use them without a backup alternative. I've seen more outages, that
> > one would want to ever see from a provider, that would like to be
> > categorised as Tier1.
> >
> > Especially, when some of these are longer than expected, because there
> > were no cold-spares in the country and the cold-spare needed missed the
> > flight.
> >
> > /M
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