Pricing also market dependent sometimes .. but generally that pricing for Cogent is what I see.. +/-
Both HE and Cogent (as Mike mentioned) have their challenges. Both are guilty of running their ports quite “hot” at times – seen this on many occasions. Often they have limited redundancy in some locations as well .. or in some areas where they have redundancy (diverse paths leaving facility, redundant switches/routers) they have other issues with capacity. We use both of them along with several others – business decision more than technical decision, driven by pricing. To give credit though with HE, their NOC folks are quite responsive in the past while I’ve dealt with them… and service orders are filled fast. We just lit a couple more ports with them and it went fast and smooth overall. At the same time we were lighting several ports with a different provider and it was 45 days of agony, confusion, miscommunication etc – once those ports were activated it was another week or troubleshooting issues that HE would have solved in hours. So as much as I dislike HE, they do have some strengths … Cogent we use for on-net routes only until we can meet their peering requirements - too many problems going off-net with them compared to others. Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:16 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone heard of GTT 100 meg: $4, 1g: $0.80, 10G: $0.50 HE is cheaper, but in fewer facilities. Note that both have had quality issues in general, though may be just great from a particular location on their networks. Usually it's congested peering and usually the fault of the other party not wanting to upgrade. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com _____ From: "Matt" <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com <mailto:matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> > To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 11:08:29 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anyone heard of GTT So how much is 1gbps from Cogent going for in the data center now?
