Re: Cogent Layer 2

[Shawn L via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

When I last spoke to them, it sounded like they were using a bunch of LAG groups based on ip address because they 
_really_ wanted to know how many ip addresses we had and what kind of traffic we would be expecting (eyeball networks, 
big data transport, etc).


-----Original Message-----
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:46pm
To: "nanog () nanog org" <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Cogent Layer 2




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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