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Originally Posted by Spudstr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_ISP
Tier 1 - A network who peers with every other network to reach the Internet.
Tier 2 - A network who peers with some networks, but still purchases IP transit to reach at least some portion of the Internet.
Tier 3 - A network who solely purchases transit from other networks to reach the Internet.
Cogents network really isn't that bad, its came a long way over the past years.
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I would have to agree, however when most people think of tier one they aren't thinking of cogent.
We provide colocation for alot of VoIP providers, us included. Cogent bandwidth is great for VoIP since they have peers everywhere, and you can get alot of bandwidth cheap as we all know.
But for our general dedicated hosting customer, we route 99% on their traffic over our tier 1 providers and use cogent for backup and over flow. We have a full GigE connections with cogent at the Tampa center. And it costs us about 1/3 to price of our GigE connection with Level3.
Thanks,
JoeW
P.S. Still have servers if you are interested. Also will be posting other dedicated deals this weekend.