Cogent executes a selective peering strategy, a combination of two separate, yet interrelated initiatives: extensive private peering and selected public peering agreements. These agreements provide Cogent customer traffic with a more direct route to its destination, thereby improving their experience on the Internet.

Over 95% of Cogent's traffic goes across private peering connections. Cogent's unique network architecture enables us to set up private peering in virtually every Carrier Neutral Data Center connected to our network at speeds ranging from Gigabit Ethernet to multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Cogent also participates in several public peering exchanges, such as PAIX (Palo Alto) in North America; DE-CIX (Frankfurt), LINX (London) and others in Europe.

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