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On Monday, November 30, 2020 3:07 PM, Jared Brown <nanog-isp@mail.com> wrote:

> Hello NANOG!
>
> Does anybody have anything, good or bad, to say about Cogent's Global Peer Exchange?
>
> Jared

On 11/30/20 07:07, Jared Brown wrote:
> Hello NANOG!
>
> Does anybody have anything, good or bad, to say about Cogent's Global Peer Exchange?

I have had two different Cogent telespammers cold-call me about this
within the last month. Neither seemed to grok the concept of peering,
why one should pay a third party for it, or how their product differed
from (partial?) transport.

Neither could provide a link to a Cogent website or provide a document
that detailed this offering. Neither called me back as promised with
more information or to clarify exactly what they were selling.

As far as I can tell it's a marketing gimmick of some kind being
promoted by telemarketers who don't know how to spell BGP.

--
Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV

> You take down a 10g connection and they bill each side $.2 a meg, 95th
> percintile billing. VLAN between the two sites. Both sites have to have a
> different AS number. So if you want to move 1g of data, 95th percentile,
> between 2 datacenters I guess it has some utility at $400 a gig effective
> pricing. I can't beleive it is a great money maker for them. Oh and it's
> Cogent and they say they can't give you above 1500 mtu.

~P

That's Cogent for ya.

Ryan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 10:14 AM Paul Emmons <paul@emmons.mx> wrote:

>
> You take down a 10g connection and they bill each side $.2 a meg, 95th
>> percintile billing. VLAN between the two sites. Both sites have to have a
>> different AS number. So if you want to move 1g of data, 95th percentile,
>> between 2 datacenters I guess it has some utility at $400 a gig effective
>> pricing. I can't beleive it is a great money maker for them. Oh and it's
>> Cogent and they say they can't give you above 1500 mtu.
>
> ~P
>

To expand on that a bit: The pricing differs per geographical region, I
was offered 0.1 EUR/Mbps, someone I know in Australia got a price
several times higher. No fixed port costs, no commit, no distance-based
fees. No discounts for larger ports.

Both sites have to be separate companies, not just separate ASNs. If you
ask about that, they will point you at their L2 PtP product instead.

Regards,
Filip

On 2020-11-30 19:11, Paul Emmons wrote:

>> You take down a 10g connection and they bill each side $.2 a meg, 95th percintile billing. VLAN between the two sites. Both sites have to have a different AS number. So if you want to move 1g of data, 95th percentile, between 2 datacenters I guess it has some utility at $400 a gig effective pricing. I can't beleive it is a great money maker for them. Oh and it's Cogent and they say they can't give you above 1500 mtu.
>
> ~P