Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois

Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by rshnotsecure on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:39AM (#21978733)

Has anyone seen the network map of Cogent’s? https://www.cogentco.com/en/network/network-map

This thing is enormous. This just looks...like the whole internet. Do they fully own those undersea lines too like Google does now with theirs? Or are they leased?

I sure hope they don’t turn out to be a front company for a foreign nation’s military lol like I am always on here saying.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by samcrawford on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:59AM (#21978833)

Their map is a bit misleading - they only cover North America and Europe well, which is not really "the whole internet". Their coverage in Asia, Oceania, South America, the Middle East and Africa is poor or non-existent.

Level3 (now CenturyLink) have better coverage - http://www.centurylink-business.com/demos/network-maps.html - but even they have poor coverage in some areas.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by walrus01 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:44AM (#21979058)

Cogent does not own the underlying cables. They buy transport from companies like zayo, CenturyLink/level3.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by blaser-waffle on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:07PM (#21984860)

This is just (paid) peering and leased fiber, no?

How much of it is dark fiber vs. lit?

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