One caveat about Cogent even as a third or extra provider. Because of disputes with eyeball networks, there is significant congestion at peering points with Cogent. We saw consistent 5-10% packet loss over many months traversing Cogent through to Charger, Cox and Verizon as well as others. For web access and even streaming video, with buffers, this might not be an issue. But for corporate use with VOIP and/or VPNs, it was a killer. We had to cancel our Cogent service and work with our remaining providers to de-preference Cogent completely.
---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-694-5669 > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of William Herrin > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 10:47 AM > To: James Milko <jmi...@gmail.com> > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Cogent - Google - HE Fun > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:14 AM, James Milko <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:32 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> > wrote: > >> At the very least, no one who is clueful about "The Internet" is > >> single-homed to Cogent with any protocol. > > > > s/single-homed/dual-homed/ > > > > It's not like losing Google/HE because your other transit dropped is > > acceptable. > > Hi James, > > Cogent is effective at reducing cost as the third or subsequent provider > in one's mix. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
