Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-07 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/Feb/15 22:05, Bryan Tong wrote: > We've been on Cogent for 3 years now. > > I have to say the experience has been nice. Good sales, great NOC. We even > had a dirty fiber issue with their uplink (due to the MMA owner) and Cogent > stayed on the phone with me for hours and got it handled befor

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-06 Thread Justin Wilson - MTIN
Cogent has been very good in my experience. They have some issues they need to work out, but are pretty solid. We have had some issues where they have said they are doing maintenance on such and such night and it comes a day early. We have also seen some routing weirdness when it comes to rou

RE: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Nick Rose
-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul S. Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 1:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT As a current Cogent customer, my experience on the service side of things is similar. Very responsive (I called on a Sunday and had someone with good enough

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Bryan Tong
sage - > > From: "Alistair Mackenzie" > Cc: "NANOG" > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 1:35:13 PM > Subject: Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT > > Don't be surprised if cogent contact you for even posting this. > > They did it to me when I asked

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
w.ics-il.com > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" > 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

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Alistair Mackenzie
- > > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" > 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 upstrea

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" 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 a

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
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

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Mike Hammett
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-

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Paul S.
As a current Cogent customer, my experience on the service side of things is similar. Very responsive (I called on a Sunday and had someone with good enough clue + router access pick up instantly.) NOC is competent, and my sales guys (I've had two so far) are not pushy at all. I don't have a

Re: Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

2015-02-05 Thread Christopher Rogers
NTT is awesome. Extremely responsive, sales guys aren't pushy, noc is great, and lots of NTT guys are here on nanog. Cogent is not. Their sales guys love to scrape whois records too, and won't leave you the hell alone. I've used both extensively, and now typically just avoid cogent. -chris Am