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
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
- VLAN-based connectivity that provides dedicated bandwidth to your locations.
- Reliable and secure data transport.
VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service)
- Any-to-any / multipoint-to-multipoint connects all of your sites with a single Ethernet port at each location.
- Flexible enough to support dynamic applications that can be shared in real-time.
- 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.