History
Cogent started operations in 1999. Since then, it has dynamically expanded to become a top five global service provider in over 264 major markets and 56 countries.
- Our customer connections are dedicated and non-oversubscribed
- Our prices are among 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 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, 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. Today, we are widely recognized as one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic in the world.
