Re: Cogent Communications?

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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
> > bill () axient com                                 Axient Communications