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Ideally suited for single to large multi-site enterprises that require global, dedicated bandwidth backed by strong SLAs. As an ethernet-based solution, per bit/byte costs are kept competitive whilst also keeping high bandwidth speeds. Cogent’s high capacity IP network allows high speed (up to 100Gbps) connectivity to large bandwidth connections whilst remaining at a competitive price. Provides services for corporate and net centric businesses with a facilities based network spanning: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
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Founded in 1999, Cogent are a network service provider headquartered in Washington, North America. They leverage their global Tier-1 optical IP backbone, which provides connectivity over 48 countries with over 3,000 PoP’s. Their offices are located in North America, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Spain, France, Sweden and Singapore. The company is able to cater for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), and large global corporations, as well as netcentric companies such as service providers. Cogent has been consistently ranked as one of the top 5 networks in the world. Cogent’s clients currently include 80 percent of the top 100 US law firms, top financial institutions and major stock exchanges. Cogent were ranked №1 amongst US competitive providers for Ethernet services in concurrent years between 2017 and 2020.
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Cogent’s SD WAN solution is primarily fiber optic and focuses on DIA and data transport via their Global Tier-1 Optical IP Backbone. However, they also offer connectivity to AWS via their partnership with CloudHelix (See How does Cogent access Cloud vendors?) In addition to fiber optic DIA and cloud, Cogent offer VPLS connectivity using ethernet ports. Colocation services are available with 54 internet data centers, plus 1,309 carrier-neutral data centers worldwide. They have 1,187 PoPs worldwide, which can connect into cloud services such as AWS (See How does Cogent access Cloud vendors?). SD WAN overlay is available via Cogent vendor partners. There are a number of key features:
Currently Cogent do not offer a SASE security solution, it is instead available via one of their vendor partners, such as Cisco Meraki.
Cogent’s offering has multiple service classes and can support throughput of 85% of full line speed. This solution leverages 1,309 carrier neutral data centers to provide symmetrical fiber internet connection. WAN is optimized and secured through IPSec/AES 128-bit encryption and VPLS encapsulation. VPN and Internet network traffic are divided locally or via a hub due to split tunnel topology. The SD WAN topology is flexible and utilizes full mesh, hub and spoke or split tunneling. Cogent’s ethernet services handle speeds from 100mbps to 1Gbps and offer support for both electrical and optical ethernet ports.
Support for remote users is provisioned via third party vendors, who often also provide an overlay solution to Cogent’s offering.
Cogent primarily provide internet access and data transport services as well as colocation at their global data centers. The ability to offer DIY or Co-managed SD WAN should be discussed with a Cogent account manager as this may require a third party solution.
End to end network monitoring and traffic analysis is available via Cogent’s cloud based monitoring portal.
Below is a table displaying the main focus points of the Cogent Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Metric | Threshold |
Network Availability | 100% |
Installation Guarantee | |
On-Net | 17 business days |
Colocation | 17 business days |
Off-Net | 90 business days |
Notification of Outage | Within 15 minutes |
Network Latency | |
Intra-North America | <45ms |
Intra-Europe | <35ms |
New York to London (Transatlantic) | <85ms |
Los Angeles to Tokyo (Transpacific) | <140ms |
Packet Delivery | 99.9% |
Cogent has a strong partnership with Cisco Meraki to deliver SD WAN services.
Cogent leverages DIA and ethernet VPLS, to support their Global MPLS-enabled Tier-1 Optical IP Backbone.
As a network provider, Cogent provide support and management for their underlay solution which provides data transport and internet access. Cogent also offer managed colocation in 54 worldwide data centres.
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