http://www.cogentco.com/blog Unleashing the Potential of the Internet Fri, 30 May 2008 15:36:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you know that the Internet as a whole has 13 root name servers that make it easy for you to find what your looking for on the Internet? Did you also know that Cogent runs one of the 13 root servers - Root Server C - and has been ... http://www.cogentco.com/blog/?p=6 No, this is not a scene from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but Cogent definitely has become a "good guy" in the battle against unsolicited bulk e-mail (aka "Spam").Recently, Cogent received the White Hat Star from Spamhaus. The Spamhaus Group has over six hundred and fifty million users. ... http://www.cogentco.com/blog/?p=5 Did you know that Cogent continues to grow its network each week by adding any combination of new customers, new buildings or new markets? Did you also know that Cogent has connected, or is about to connect, the following markets? In the United States, Orange County, McAllen, TX, San Antonio, TX, ... http://www.cogentco.com/blog/?p=4 When you talk about scale, you usually compare something very large to something very small.  Cliché’s like an elephant compared to a mouse come to mind or a dinosaur to a human.  But how do you compare the size of ISP’s?  Customers?  Physical miles in the network?  Capacity?  Peering?  Traffic?  ... http://www.cogentco.com/blog/?p=3