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 -- Airwire - Ag Nascadh Pobal an Iarthar http://www.airwire.ie Phone: 091-865 968
