Re: Cogent Layer 2

[David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>]

I had a discussion with them about a point to point circuit last year and ran into some weirdness around how burstable 
it would be for specific IP to IP streams as our use case was cheap circuit / high speed data replication between given 
endpoints.  The sales rep was suggesting to me that I’d see specific source/destination IP pairs capped at 2gbps 
regardless of circuit speed, which suggested to me it was not actually a point to point wave but some type of 
encapsulated service.  We didn’t get into whether it was usable for non-IP, etc.



From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com () nanog org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM
To: "nanog () nanog org" <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Cogent Layer 2

Are any legitimate beefs with Cogent limited to their IP policies, BGP session charges, and peering disputes? Meaning, 
would using them for layer 2 be reasonable?



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