Cogent Communications

Brilliantly Fast. Elegantly Simple.

Cogent Communications is a multinational, Tier-1 facilities-based ISP, consistently ranked as one of the top five backbone networks in the world. Cogent provides businesses with high-speed Internet access, Ethernet transport, and colocation services.

Get to Know Cogent

IP Transit

Cogent’s IP Transit service offers the best value in the marketplace. Powered by the most interconnected network in the world, it offers high-quality, scalable, and affordable bandwidth. Combine our wide choice of service locations with our outstanding connectivity to major access and content networks throughout the world, and you will understand how we turned thousands of carriers, service providers, and application and content providers into loyal customers.  Learn more

About Cogent

Cogent’s network stretches over 97,300 route miles of long-haul fiber and more than 191,400 miles of metropolitan fiber serving over 1518 metropolitan rings. See our full Network Map

Optical Wavelengths

Cogent’s Optical Wavelengths provide high-bandwidth, low-latency, long-haul data transport between data centers. With multiple unique North-South and East-West routes, and connectivity in most leading carrier-neutral data centers, across the US, this service delivers maximum flexibility and helps deliver diversity and redundancy for your traffic. Learn more

Ethernet Services

Cogent’s Ethernet Services deliver secure, private network connectivity and data transport services. Used in conjunction with our IP Transit service, our Ethernet services offer additional security for your data transport. Cogent offers flexible network topologies (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, hub & spoke or full mesh) to fit your specific needs. Learn more

IP Addresses

Cogent can provide NCTC Members with IPv4 Address allocations in /24 and larger blocks.

Service Locator

This searchable map or list-based view shows all of the facilities worldwide which are connected to Cogent’s network. Learn more

Get Started with Cogent

Contact us to learn more about NCTC’s Cogent agreement, or to get a confidential, no-obligation quote.