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: "NetCentric" (access providers and content providers whose businesses rely primarily on Internet access) and "Corporate" (small businesses to Fortune 100 companies).

Our innovative, facilities-based network spans Western Europe, across the Atlantic and throughout North America. With over 81,400 Kilometers of intercity route fibre and more than 22,850 metro fibre Kilimoters, we provide service to over 145 major markets and interconnect with over 3,250 other networks.


Cogent was founded on the premise that bandwidth can be treated like a commodity product-produce mass amounts and position it for sale based on price. Leveraging new technologies, we built our own IP data network independent of the incumbent networks. 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 recognised 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


• And, our network performance is among the best in the industry

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, click on the link below.


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