Hello again-
As it stands, Cogent has not lit up any client sites yet. I am a "customer" of Cogent's, I have signed up four buildings for my network. Their backbone lighting party here in Chicago was late November; they are roughly a month behind schedule.
The way they are costing out there service isn't too hard to follow. They buy dark fiber in pre-wired buildings, in cities that they already have drops to their fiber ring. Everyone here is missing something about Cogent - They are NOT reselling to home users. In fact, they don't allow colocation either! If you do not have a POP in a building they are lighting, you are out.
Someone a little farther on caught on to the main point of using the Cogent service - creating an incredibly fast VPN nationwide (US). Chicago is to have one of the first buildings lit, then NY, and last I heard building 3 is in San Fran. Nothing as of yet.
Cogent has a bunch of positives to their service. First, they own the network between the sites that they plan on lighting up. The fiber has been purchased; the backbone routers are in place, as of Oct 15. The FIRST building to get lit is 440 S LaSalle, in Chicago, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (actually the office tower behind it). This is scheduled to happen November 1st, and if so then I will be getting a very fun phone call that day, asking if I still wish to go online with them.
However, what the majority of you are missing is this - if I buy links in other buildings across the nation, I now have an incredibly cheap WAN, at 100 mbs. Cisco all throughout, so VPN becomes that much easier. A dedicated point to point from Chicago to San Fran is easily 1-2k a month, even from a discount carrier such as Qwest. Also, Cogent explicitly states in its literature that they don't plan on providing access for everyone - just for the companies in the buildings they light up. That boils down to only major metros, and buildings where fiber already has been run, so as to reduce fees for Cogent.
I'm sold on the service. I've alreayd signed up 4 buildings. Here's to hoping they pull it off.
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Hello again- As it stands, Cogent has not lit up any client sites yet. I am a "customer" of Cogent's, I have signed up four buildings for my network. Their backbone lighting party here in Chicago was late November; they are roughly a month behind schedule.
The way they are costing out there service isn't too hard to follow. They buy dark fiber in pre-wired buildings, in cities that they already have drops to their fiber ring. Everyone here is missing something about Cogent - They are NOT reselling to home users. In fact, they don't allow colocation either! If you do not have a POP in a building they are lighting, you are out.
Someone a little farther on caught on to the main point of using the Cogent service - creating an incredibly fast VPN nationwide (US). Chicago is to have one of the first buildings lit, then NY, and last I heard building 3 is in San Fran. Nothing as of yet.
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Cogent has a bunch of positives to their service. First, they own the network between the sites that they plan on lighting up. The fiber has been purchased; the backbone routers are in place, as of Oct 15. The FIRST building to get lit is 440 S LaSalle, in Chicago, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (actually the office tower behind it). This is scheduled to happen November 1st, and if so then I will be getting a very fun phone call that day, asking if I still wish to go online with them.
However, what the majority of you are missing is this - if I buy links in other buildings across the nation, I now have an incredibly cheap WAN, at 100 mbs. Cisco all throughout, so VPN becomes that much easier. A dedicated point to point from Chicago to San Fran is easily 1-2k a month, even from a discount carrier such as Qwest. Also, Cogent explicitly states in its literature that they don't plan on providing access for everyone - just for the companies in the buildings they light up. That boils down to only major metros, and buildings where fiber already has been run, so as to reduce fees for Cogent.
I'm sold on the service. I've alreayd signed up 4 buildings. Here's to hoping they pull it off.
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