Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

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

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> > Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> > > Mike,
> > > Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any
> > > serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also
> > > try some other similarly priced providers like WBS Connect, HE, or
> > > BtN.
> >
> > (resend due to subject filter)
> >
> > Plus if you had direct connectivity to Cogent, their peering status with
> > others wouldn't affect you anymore. Personally, I've seriously
> > considered this as a reason to get a connection from Cogent.
>
>
> If you are not single-homed, you have no issues reaching Cogent even
> during a "peering war" - unless Cogent depeers / gets depeered from
> -both- (all) of your upstreams at the same time.  So what value is there
> to add Cogent?

The value is, that Cogent pretty much is the cheapest transit you can
get out there vs. paying a premium for carriers that have less clue and
more outages.

And if you do that in a multi-homed scenario you shouldn't have issues,
having Cogent or not having it, correct.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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