COGENT's innovative, facilities-based network spans six continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. With over 92,000 route miles of intercity fiber and more than 32,400 metro fiber miles, we provide service to over 302 major markets and interconnect with over 8,085 other networks.
Established in 1999
Cogent was founded 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, Cogent built our own IP data network independent of the traditional voice-based networks owned by the RBOCs (regional bell operating companies). By doing so, Cogent reduced the cost of high quality bandwidth down to a level never before offered in the marketplace. Today, Cogent is widely recognized as one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic in the world.
- Customer connections are dedicated and non-oversubscribed
- Prices are among the lowest in the industry
- Diversity from traditional carriers enables redundancy for customer data
- Simple network structure allows for rapid provisioning
- "self-healing" ring architecture design minimizes outages
- Cogent is smart business internet