Cogent Communications
| CCOI Logo | |
| Company type | Public (Nasdaq: CCOI) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
Key people | Dave Schaeffer Founder/CEO Reed Harrison President/COO Tad Weed CFO |
| Revenue | $135.21 million USD (2005) |
 $60.46 million USD (2005) | |
| $67.52 million USD (2005) | |
Number of employees | 340 |
| Website | www.cogentco.com |
Cogent Communications is a multinational IP Internet Service Provider. It has a facilities-based network spanning 22,500 miles and provides service in over 95 cities across 14 countries.
Cogent offers several services including dedicated Internet service, colocation services, and Layer 2 point-to-point services in areas where it has its own last-mile network connections.
A Gartner vendor rating report from 2005 [1], stated that Cogent "offers basic Internet services at bargain prices and high speeds, chiefly in the U.S. and Europe." They go on to say that "the company's no-frills approach has its risks."
Cogent is controversial in the ISP market because of its highly competitive prices, and because it has been depeered on more than one occasion by other ISPs such as AOL, France Telecom and Level 3, leading to temporary IP reachability problems between Cogent and the depeered network. In some instances, the companies that depeered Cogent, ended up reconnecting to Cogent due to external pressure (Level3) from customers that were serverly impacted by the aggresive tactics and in others (France Telecom and AOL) Cogent was forced to purchase transit from Verio to reach those parts of the Internet. That being said, France Telecom appears to have recently re-activated their direct peering -- or is selling Cogent transit.
Cogent currently has direct peering with most Tier 1 Providers with the notable exceptions of ATDN and Sprint Nextel.
Cogent's primary customers are content providers looking to save a buck or two per meg.
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