Don't be surprised if cogent contact you for even posting this. They did it to me when I asked for hibernia. On 5 Feb 2015 19:16, "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> Working on it. ;-) > > Being an eyeball network, most of my traffic just goes to NetFlix, Akamai, > LimeLight, FaceBook, Google, etc. anyway. Peer what you can peer, Cogent > for customer routes, then grab a couple nicer carriers and call it a day. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 12:54:43 PM > Subject: Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT > > By that logic, and giving you the benefit of the doubt that you follow > your own advice, you have 15-20 upstreams? > > I've never tried that on a standard network with BGP as the only tool. See > any interesting operational stuff with that many upstreams? > > Also, while many people knock Cogent, I would submit that many people have > bad first-hand experiences with Cogent (including me). > > Every network has its bad days. Even the best companies screw customers > from time-to-time. But the preponderance of evidence is a useful guidepost. > Cogent is large, but does not have even half the customers NTT has. Do > "lots of people knock NTT"? Given NTT's much larger number of customers, > shouldn't that mean they have more knocks? > > If not, I submit the disparity is a useful datapoint when choosing a > provider. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > > Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. > > > > On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:29, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > > > A lot of people knock Cogent, but the best way to get to Cogent's > customer's is probably through Cogent. Given that they do have a very large > network, they're worth picking up even if you only use them for customer > routes. > > > > > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Jack Stonebraker" <jack.stonebra...@mygrande.com> > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 11:24:59 AM > > Subject: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT > > > > My organization is currently shopping for some additional Transit > Capacity to augment our existing interconnects. We've got around 8 distinct > AS's that we're receiving transit routes from, followed by a handful of > Public IX's and Private PNI's to AS's that warrant them. That said, the > networks that are on our radar are Cogent and NTT. I've done some due > diligence poking around on their Looking Glass, but I'd love to hear any > user experiences from the community, both from a Layer 3 Perspective, as > well as an Operational Perspective (Working with the businesses > themselves). Feel free to contact me off-list and thanks in advance for > your time. > > > > [cid:image002.jpg@01CFE2F3.A6F973D0] > > > > > > Jack Stonebraker | Sr. IP Network Engineer > > (512) 878-5627 | jack.stonebra...@mygrande.com<mailto: > john.ho...@mygrande.com> > > Grande Communications Networks > > 401 Carlson Circle | San Marcos, Texas | 78666 > > > > > > > > > >
