Input Regarding Cogent and NTT

Fri Feb 6 17:14:27 UTC 2015

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 route selection.

Ive had a connection, server, something on Cogent for about 12 years now.  I started with a server in Chicago at the Board of Trade building.  At that time Cogent was the home of cheap web-hosts, ware, and porn.  I remember a year or so after I had that server the big folks like ATT and some others de-peered with Cogent.  Many of the web-sites I was hosting were simply not reachable for a few days from a big majority of the Internet.  I think the sheer amount of web-sites and content convinced the big folks to bring up the peering.  I was working for a large dial-up ISP at the time and remember getting call after call about someone not being able to reach their favorite web-site.

Cogent tech support has always been top notch.  They answer the phone and I have always been directed to an engineer that can help right away.  As of 6 months ago their ticketing system still sucked, but I think everyone’s does. LOL.

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Peering – Transit – Internet Exchange 

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Jack Stonebraker <Jack.Stonebraker at mygrande.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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