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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
as I expected temporary, level3 have the size to fight of cogent and I hope they succeed as cogent are dropping the market to unsustainable level's.
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So how exactly are Cogent still in business if they are charging unsustainable prices?
That or a company is actually making use of the fact the vast majority of the fibre in the ground is unlit, and is charging appropriate prices rather than trying to make transit a cash cow.
Cogent is the bargain basement, performance has been fine 99.9% of the time that I've seen (sadly I don't have the perspective of having a hosting box, merely working for an ISP that uses them for multi-gigabits of transit).
If Cogent are able to make money supplying as they do the fault tends to appear to lie with the companies that are still operating as telcos rather than ISPs, overweight.
I've no sympathy for Level 3 and really don't care about the transit market. Level 3's financial issues are their problem and if they and others can't compete that's also their problem.
Cheaper transit means cheaper internet for all, the resiliency of IP networks makes maintaining 100% quality 24x7 less of an issue, and I've not seen congestion on Cogent's network, only on interconnects which can't be described as Cogent's fault as it takes 2 to interconnect!