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You need to mention also that "cheap bandwidth" is cheap for a reason.
It might be "good" routing wise, however, I have been in the meet me room
of 1 Wilshire and several other telco hotels we have crap in....
If you look at what Cogent has installed there in their cage versus what Level3
has there, you can see a BIG BIG difference.
First of all....
Cogent: No redundancy AT ALL in their cage. Single power supply, no backup blades
in the routers, HORRIBLE wiring. I can get you a photo of it, I took one with my cell
if I can find it I will post it...
Level3: CLEAN WIRING, Everything is labeled, EVERYTHING has backups and they have new in the box backup parts on a shelf waiting there "just in case". They have multiple Supervisor blades in fault tolerant mode in their chassis and etc...
I really find it funny that Cogent got all this money from Cisco yet has a horrible implementation of Cisco in their network, lol.
Reliability is key with premium providers. This could mean ALOT for ALOT of reasons.
Saving money is cool, but it's not always the right choice.
The "you get what you pay for" thing is kinda true.
Did I mention we sell L3 cheaper than anyone, including L3 Direct? :-) (Shameless Plug)
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