Cogent was founded in 1999 on the premise that bandwidth can be treated like a commodity: produce mass amounts and position it for sale based on price. Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Their primary service offering consists of internet access and data transport, offered over their award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in any of their 40+ internet data centers. Cogent is a very strong play in their lit buildings with aggressively priced large bandwidth that can install services very quickly.