Peering Policy
DSM (GB) (AS48070) operates an open policy and will generally welcome all requests for peering.
We do not require a signed agreement but are happy to do so where the agreement is reasonable.
We use PeeringDB as a single authoritative source of truth.
This means peering partners must have an up-to-date PeeringDB entry before a bilateral peering session can be established.
Both parties must have an up-to-date NOC contact email, which is responsive to raised issues and concerns.
Guidelines
- Hot-potato routing is implied. MEDs are not honoured.
- Settlement free peering.
- Neither party should ever establish a gateway of last resort configured towards the other party’s network.
- A minimum of 5 Mbit/s is generally recommended but not required.
- We reserve the right to refuse peering with any party.
Private Interconnection (PNI) Requirements
If the network exchanges more than 1Gbps (95th) of traffic in a specific mutual location, either party can request a PNI.
We accept single or multiples of 1/10/40/100G connections.
Information
To ensure quality of operations, we reserve the following rights under our Peering Policy:
- To alter our peering policy and peering requirements at any time.
- To accept or decline a peering request at any time for any reason.
- To suspend, without notice, peering connectivity in the event of a severe QoS issues such as high latency/packet loss/jitter and to take appropriate traffic engineering steps to maintain service quality.
- To selectively withdraw prefixes from public IXP fabrics as needed to protect service quality.
- To terminate any peering connection at any time without notice.