Peering Policy

M247 (AS9009) seeks to expand it’s peering base with other IP Networks on a settlement-free basis when this is beneficial to M247 and it’s Customers.

Such an interconnection will be reffered to as a PNI (Private Network Interconnect).

M247 can peer with other IP Networks over Internet Exchanges (IXPNI) or privately using a physical cable (PNI).

For a PNI to be established, the traffic must exceed 20gbps for multihomed networks and 10gbps for single homed networks.

General Rules:

• The peering partner must have an Autonomous System Number assigned by one of the five Regional Internet Registries, and use the BGP4 protocol for peering sessions.
• The peering partner must NOT abuse the peering relationship by doing any of the following: point default route, reset next hop, sell or give the next hop to third parties, and so forth unless granted by M247.
• The peering partner must maintain a 24/7 Network Operations Centre.
• The peering partner must NOT be an existing M247 Customer.
• The peering partner must peer in at least 2 Countries per Continent, subject to presence on multiple continents.
• The peering partner may implement filtering (AS, routes, prefix-limit, RPKI) but must inform M247 about its setup, and whenever any changes occur.
• The peering partner must NOT announce prefixes longer than /24.
• The peering partner shall keep its Peering DB objects up to date.
• The exchanged traffic must never exceed in a permanent basis the 75% of the physical interconnection capacity.
• The peering partner can always find all the technical information on AS9009 on it’s peeringdb page: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/601
• The peering partner must read and accept this agreement.