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Encyclopedia > Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications Group, Inc.
CCOI Logo
Type Public (NASDAQ: CCOI)
Founded 1999
Location Washington, D.C.
Key people Dave Schaeffer Founder/CEO
Reed Harrison President/COO
Tad Weed CFO
Industry Telecommunications
Revenue $135.21 million USD (2005)
Operating Income $60.46 million USD (2005)
Net Income $67.52 million USD (2005)
Employees 340
Website www.cogentco.com

Cogent Communications is a multinational IP Internet Service Provider. It has a facilities-based network spanning 22,500 miles and provides service in over 95 cities across 14 countries. Image File history File links Ccoilogo. ... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... Laminitis, also known as founder, is inflammation of the sensitive lamina of the foot in a horse, the complications of which often result in the horse having to be euthanized. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... CFO is usually short for Chief Financial Officer, but may also mean: Carrier frequency offset Ceramic fiber optics Chief Fire Officer Chief of Flight Operations Conselho Federal de Odontologia (cfo. ... Telecommunication involves the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... Revenue is a US business term for the amount of money that a company can receive from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... EBIT stands for Earnings before Interest and Taxes (operating income). ... Image File history File links Red_Arrow_Down. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links Red_Arrow_Down. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... In telecommunications, a company that actually owns and operates the facilities to provide service such as VoIP origination or termination. ...


Cogent offers several services including dedicated Internet service, colocation services, and Layer 2 point-to-point services in areas where it has its own last-mile network connections. A colocation centre (colo) or carrier hotel is a type of data center where multiple telecommunications network or service providers, such as telcos or ISPs, site their connections to one anothers networks (points of presence). ... The Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Model or OSI Reference Model for short) is a layered abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design, developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnect initiative. ... Point-to-Point telecommunications is most recently (2003) referenced regarding wireless data communications for Internet or Voice over IP via radio frequencies in the multi-gigahertz range. ...


A Gartner vendor rating report from 2005 [1], stated that Cogent "offers basic Internet services at bargain prices and high speeds, chiefly in the U.S. and Europe." They go on to say that "the company's no-frills approach has its risks." Gartner logotype. ...


Cogent is controversial in the ISP market because of its highly competitive prices, and because it has been depeered on more than one occasion by other ISPs such as AOL, France Telecom and Level 3, leading to temporary IP reachability problems between Cogent and the depeered network. In some instances, the companies that depeered Cogent, ended up reconnecting to Cogent due to external pressure (Level3) from customers that were serverly impacted by the aggresive tactics and in others (France Telecom and AOL) Cogent was forced to purchase transit from Verio to reach those parts of the Internet. That being said, France Telecom appears to have recently re-activated their direct peering. Peering is the practice of voluntarily interconnecting distinctly separate data networks on the Internet, for the purposes of exchanging traffic between the customers of the peered networks. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... France Télécom is the main telecommunication company in France. ... Level 3 is an international communications and information services company and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Verio is an ISP in the United States. ...


Cogent currently has direct peering with most Tier 1 Providers with the notable exceptions of ATDN and Sprint Nextel. A Tier 1 ISP is a telco or Internet service provider IP network which connects to the rest of the Internet only via a practice known as peering. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Cogent's primary customers are content providers.


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About Cogent Communications Cogent Communications (Amex: COI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities- based ISP ranked by Ovum-RHK as the largest provider of Ethernet services in the United States.
Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. For more information, visit http://www.cogentco.com.
Cogent Communications can be reached in the United States at (202) 295-4200 or via email at info@cogentco.com.
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