Peering Policy

Summary

This document describes the peering policies for GB Network Solutions (AS132372)

Background

An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is the physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers and content delivery networks exchange Internet traffic between their networks. Wikipedia

Policy Statement

GB Network Solutions peers with network operators at IXs wherever mutually beneficial, and may establish multiple sessions for redundancy where feasible.

Peering Requirements

• Use a registered public autonomous system (AS) number.
• Publish valid contact information via PeeringDB.
• Maintain accurate prefix and ASN records in an IRR.
• Only send traffic destined to prefixes we advertise.
• Optional features we can support on request: BGP MD5 (RFC 2385), BLACKHOLE (RFC 7999), Graceful shutdown (RFC 8326).

Peering on Internet Exchanges

• No minimum traffic volume, but peering remains selective.
• BGP sessions should be established for both IPv4 and IPv6 when available.

Private Network Interconnect (PNI)

• Initial PNI port speeds start at 10GBASE‑LR or 100GBASE‑LR4.
• We generally expect at least 1 Gbps peak traffic to consider PNI.
• BGP sessions should be dual‑stack (IPv4 and IPv6) where possible.
• We can provide IPv4 /31 and IPv6 /126 addressing for the PNI link.

Maximum Prefix Guidelines

• IPv4: 1000 prefixes suggested.
• IPv6: 1000 prefixes suggested.