Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Our primary service offering consists of Internet access and data transport, offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of our 40+ Internet data centers. We service two customer segments: “Corporate” (small businesses to Fortune 100 companies) and “NetCentric” (Carriers / Service Providers and Application / Content Providers, whose businesses rely primarily on Internet access).
Our innovative, facilities-based network spans across North America, across the Atlantic throughout Europe, and across the Pacific to Asia. With over 57,000 route miles of intercity fiber and more than 27,000 metro fiber miles, we provide service to over 185 major markets and interconnect with over 5,100 other networks.
Cogent was founded in 1999 on the premise that bandwidth can be treated like a commodity: produce mass amounts and position it for sale based on price. Leveraging new technologies, we built our own IP data network independent of the traditional voice-based networks owned by the RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies). By doing so, we believed we could reduce the cost of high quality bandwidth down to a level never before offered in the marketplace. Less than five years after lighting our network backbone, we have become widely recognized as one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic in the world.
We stand apart from our competitors in many areas, but key differentiators include:
- Our customer connections are dedicated and non-oversubscribed
- Our prices are the lowest in the industry
- Our diversity from traditional carriers enables redundancy for customer data
- Our simple network structure allows for rapid provisioning
- Our ‘self-healing’ ring architecture design minimizes outages
- Cogent is Smart Business Internet
Cogent Communications is a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol CCOI. Cogent is headquartered in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit our website at www.cogentco.com
Cogent Communications was founded on the premise that bandwidth should be treated as a commodity—produce mass amounts and position it for sale based on price. Cogent has constructed a low cost, efficient network with ample capacity to satiate the most demanding appetites for bandwidth. Our network is more reliable and less costly that IP networks laid over traditional telephone networks.
Our award-winning ring architecture provides physical diversity at the metro and backbone levels, so in the event of a fiber cut traffic is rerouted around the ring to ensure above-average up-time and global network availability.
Cogent’s product set is simple, making it easy to sell. We leave the applications to the application experts and focus solely on selling bandwidth, Cogent provides the pipe and our customers provide the bits. This efficient, focused network and product set allow us to pass savings on to the customer.
Cogent is investing in the channel with dedicated resources that will assist partners from quote to close, including a new partner portal and a dedicated, experienced team to run the program. Our Sales Partners receive all of the following:
- Evergreen, market-competitive commissions
- Competitive price points
- Dedicated Partner Channel Managers focused exclusively on Master Agents
- Dedicated quoting tool with MasterStream
- Partner Portal
