Cogent Communications

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Cogent Communications is one of the world’s largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in the United States. They always offer higher performing services at a lower price because of which cogent is an obvious choice for customers.

Primary services they offer are as follows :

1. Dedicated Internet Access

They provide On-Net Internet access to 2,635 buildings and more direct connected to their IP backbone. In fact, Cogent’s optical fiber physically goes through these buildings. Also, they provide Off-Net Internet access to 201 and more markets. Off-Net traffic also runs over the Cogent network, but telco tail circuit connects the customer to their IP backbone. Off-Net service allows them to expand their scope exponentially.

2. Ethernet Services

Their Ethernet Transport Services allow you to transfer sensitive data across the world. This data transfer can be point-to-point or multipoint-to-multipoint.

Ethernet Point-to-Point

1. VLAN-based connectivity that provides dedicated bandwidth to your locations.
3. Reliable and secure data transport.

VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service)

1. Any-to-any / multipoint-to-multipoint connects all of your sites with a single Ethernet port at each location.
2. Flexible enough to support dynamic applications that can be shared in real-time.
3. Simpler and more cost-effective, you can connect every site to an Ethernet VPN that provides a secure, high-speed network.

3. Colocation services

They provide hassle-free colocation service for your data center needs while being very cost-effective. They own 52 data centers located in North America and Europe. Click here for a complete list of data center locations and here for a virtual tour of Data Centers.

Product Features:

• Full SLA. SLA guarantees 100% global network availability with 99.9% packet delivery. Also, you will get proactive outage notification within 15 minutes.
• Full RACK. They offer a full rack (39U) which includes a cross-connect to their bandwidth at no cost.
• Rapid Installation. They assure your service installation within 17 days or less.
• Technical Support. 24x7x365 days technical support.
• Monitoring. All data centers are monitored 24×7.

Product Types :

• 10 Mbps Colo. This service provides great connectivity as well as rack space with a lot of space to grow.
• 100 Mbps Colo. Fast Ethernet connectivity provides enough bandwidth.
• 1,000 Mbps Colo. For larger customers, connectivity at 1,000 Mbps.
• 10,000 Mbps Colo. In this case, you don’t have to worry about the number of visitors to your site because it will reach them without bandwidth restrictions.
• Cogent Utility Computing. In addition, you can use cogent as a hosting provider. First, select the right configuration for your site or content delivery platform. Then you will be provided a fully dedicated server, designed for high bandwidth output.

In short, you can use Cogent as ISP as well as Hosting provider without any issues.