Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On 23/01/18 02:12, Michael Crapse wrote: Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering. Doesn't mean that it's good transit. Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2 provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s. I'd still categorise Hurr

Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Michael Crapse
Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering. Doesn't mean that it's good transit. Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2 provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s. On 22 January 2018 at 19:07, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > On 22/01

Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

2018-01-22 Thread Martin List-Petersen
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