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IP Transit

The best value powered by the most interconnected network

Cogent helps you deliver the Internet to your customers - what they need, where and when they need it, at the lowest latency and the highest throughput.

Applications

Carriers & Service Providers

  • Connect your network to Cogent's to directly reach thousands of other networks worldwide
  • Deliver the most popular applications and content to your end-users with fewer hops and lower latency

Applications & Content Providers

  • Expand your business opportunities by reaching more consumers with high-bandwidth and low latency connections
  • Whether your business is gaming, streaming, social networking, VoIP, or business & personal applications, we can help you deliver to more customers, in more places, faster. 

Delivery

In more data centers than any other Tier 1 carrier worldwide

  • In over 1,545 data centers worldwide
    • 1,490+ carrier neutral data centers
    • 55+ Cogent Data Centers
  • Also at any other customer premises, submarine cable landing stations, or other high-traffic locations.

Interfaces & Options

A wide range of interfaces and connection speeds:

  • Gigabit Ethernet (100 Mbps to 1 Gbps)
  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet (500 Mbps to 10 Gbps)
  • 100 Gigabit Ethernet (10 Gbps to 100 Gbps)

Other Options:

  • BGP or static routing configuration | Multiple BGP sessions on single port
  • IPv4 | IPv6 native / dual stack | Primary / Secondary DNS
  • Link Aggregation (LAG) | Black Hole server for DDOS protection

IP Transit Brochure

Learn more about Cogent's reliable, scalable and affordable bandwidth on the world's most interconnected network.

Performance Statistics

Superior network architecture and virtually unlimited bandwidth enable impressive network performance

Service Level Agreement

100% network availability
99.9% packet delivery
<45 ms round trip latency (North America)
proactive outage notification

Support Center

Customer Support available 24x7x365
Connect with a knowledgeable, local representative on the first ring

Hear from Our Customers

AECOM reduced their costs and found an increase in performance at Cogent-serviced locations

AECOM

AECOM

National law firm sees clear evidences of increased productivity in Cogent connected offices

Blank Rome

Blank Rome, LLP

Cogent has helped CDN77 to scale their business, as well as expand into previously untapped markets due to the breadth of the network.

CDN77

Cogent delivers a fast, reliable connection and superior customer service at a reasonable price

St. John's College

Cogent delivers scalable bandwidth and responsive service to facilitate law firm's day-to-day business


Payne & Fears LLP

phoenixNAP streamlines service delivery and provides better customer experience with Cogent


phoenixNAP

The City of Monroe delivers broadband Internet to 5,000 customers thanks to Cogent's high quality and low price.

City of Monroe

Cogent connects Cloudhelix to Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud solution


Cloudhelix

Cloudhelix

Cogent Dedicated Internet Access service installed 20 times faster than reseller of RBOC services

Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

“Cogent’s sales and support team have technical expertise and are easy to reach.” – Brian Roche, Bay Country Communications, Inc.
  

Bay Country Communications

“Cogent was able to provide us colocation and bandwidth services within a week’s notice.” - Jeff Liegel, Engineer at iTalk Global Communication

iTalk Global Communication

“Our deep analysis of the telco market in our region showed that Cogent has an unbeatable SLA and excellent pricing.” - Vjekoslav Dalić, Altus IT

Altus IT

"Cogent’s ability to rapidly provision new and expanded connectivity has provided our technology and digital transformation initiatives a quicker time-to-market.” – Mitchell St. Amant, Chartright Air Group

Chartright Air Group

“We switched from our previous provider to Cogent because we needed more bandwidth with higher reliability. Overall, it has been a win - win for us.” – Mike Hernandez , Senior Network Engineer

CHF Industries

“Cogent provides the reliable Internet connection imperative to all of our operations so we can provide the support our schools expect.”
– Mark Bazin, Cristo Rey Network

Cristo Rey Network

“Since we started using Cogent, this has brought us many improvements.” – Alan Prado, Link + Internet

  

Link + Internet

“Cogent has helped my business by providing consistent, reliable connectivity to my job sites, SaaS applications, and my users without any downtime.”
Mukesh Darke, Nibbi Brothers

Nibbi Brothers General Contractors

“Cogent enables us to sell a very high - quality connection at a cost that keeps us profitable.”
– Kevin Resendes, EndLayer, LLC

EndLayer, LLC

“When we made our switch to Cogent, the provisioning team was able to hot-cut the IP, which made the transition seamless.” – Steve Huang, Manager of IT Operations at Forum One

Forum One

“Our experience of other providers has taught me that not all fiber is created equal, but Cogent’s really delivers.” – Dan Gregory, Technology & Media Leader at CLR Design, Inc

CLR Design, Inc.

“Cogent was chosen originally because of speed and cost, which our previous provider could not match.”

-James Elie, Senior Network Administrator, Edcor

Edcor

Edcor

“One of the great things that Cogent has brought us is our own peace of mind; that we are not wholly reliant on a single service and we have a backup we can rely on.”

– Michael Burwell, I.T. Manager, FirstWatch

FirstWatch

FirstWatch

“The difference between the competitor and Cogent is that I can rely on a positive support experience”

- Matthew Fout, Network Engineer, Auto Approve

Auto Approve

Auto Approve

“Knowing that I have my hosting infrastructure backed by Cogent's network has made it easy to build my business because I can depend on the reliability of the network." - Nathaniel Breitbach, CEO and founder, Stapel, LLC

Stapel LLC

Stapel, LLC

 “The whole sales process was so impressive that we pretty much moved away from our existing provider to Cogent.”                                

– Yasser Elgebaly, CEO Sannaptx

Sannaptx

Sanapptx

“Cogent gives me the performance we need, with high reliability, and a great price point. Our data gets where it needs to go superfast and without issues.”
- Ari Perlstein, CTO, Cimplifi

Cimplifi

Cimplifi

“When we chose Cogent, we chose wisely as our reliability and support became the primary reason for new customers”
- Ernie Coldwell, Senior Network Engineer, MU FiberNET

Morristown Utility Systems

Morristown Utility Systems

“Cogent helped create a stable network environment to run our office efficiently.”
- Anthony Moore, Director of IT, Advanced Care Partners

Advanced Care Partners

Advanced Care Partners

“By working collaboratively with Cogent, we were able to provide our customer with a complete and holistic solution to meet their needs."
- Colin Woods, FreedomTech

FreedomTech

“We chose Cogent because we needed a service provider that has a history of good up times and few problems.”
– Andrew Ortiz, Systems Support Analyst, Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP

Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg

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