Cogent Supplies Low-Cost Bandwidth to The Quilt

Cogent Communications will provide high quality/low cost bandwidth to a number of regional GigaPoPs that are partipants in The Quilt, an initiative led by over twenty research and education networking organizations in the US. Participants in The Quilt provide network service for over 150 Internet2 universities and thousands of other educational institutions. Cogent is prividing bandwidth at the equivalent of $10 per megabit per month to regional GigaPoPs, such as MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic GigaPoP in Philadelphia for Internet2), the Northern Crossroads (NoX), MERIT and CENIC. The deal will eventually result in over 15 Gigabits of additional Cogent IP transit ports with participants of the Quilt in 2003 and 2004.
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