Cogent pulled out of Russia based on risk analysis

Fri Mar 25 12:51:26 UTC 2022

Timestamp? 

----- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE" <lb at 6by7.net> 
To: "NANOG Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 7:37:22 AM 
Subject: Cogent pulled out of Russia based on risk analysis 

Confirmation from their CEO that Cogent shut down service in Russia due to increased use of the connections for cyberattacks, and because only $10m in rev came from Russia. 

Cogent had no equipment in Russia. 

Details: https://youtu.be/l_x2LQZOzF8 

Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 
6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
CEO 
lb at 6by7.net 
"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” 

FCC License KJ6FJJ 

Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20220325/be962e7e/attachment.html>