Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

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

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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