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Re: cogentco.com technical analysis?
From: Josh Richards <jrichard () cubicle net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:21:21 -0700
* Matt Levine <matt () deliver3 com> [20010612 17:02]:
Is anyone on-list a cogent customer? Has anyone done or heard about any peering with cogent? If so what type of pipe?
They are at PAIX. The last I contacted them they had a "very open policy about public peering". Try contacting <peering () cogentco com>....they respond in my experience.
Could they do a lot of damage if some customers start to really push traffic? (ie: 30 "big" customers pushing 500 megs each and throwing an extra 15gigs/sec onto mae-east).
My impression is that their connectivity is primarily provided by one or more transit providers (I know only of above.net) plus a bit of peering. I'd imagine their links to their transit providers would feel the pain first. I'd expect that they'd notice and upgrade the links just as everybody else does. It would move on up the chain. Of course, if most of the traffic were sourced/destined for a particular spot either Cogent or one of their transit providers would increase peering. If it was just a popular bit of content (Web site, RealMedia stream, whatever) that one of their clients was hosting and that amount of traffic was being pushed I'd imagine a lot of people would want to turn up (or upgrade existing) private peering links with them. Problem resolved. I doubt anybody would feel much pain other than perhaps Cogent and their end-user for a finite period where the upgrading would be going on. Perhaps I'm optimistic. YMMV. -jr ---- Josh Richards <jrichard@{ geekresearch.com, cubicle.net }> [JTR38/JR539-ARIN] Geek Research, LLC - San Luis Obispo, CA - <URL:http://www.geekresearch.com/> KG6CYK - IP/Unix/telecom/knowledge/coffee/security/crypto/business/geek
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