Peering with Host.net

In July 2008, Host.net (AS13645) acquired WV Fiber (AS19151), a global Internet backbone provider and migrated the Host.net national network and peering operations into WV Fiber's already extensive network of points of presence and peering relationships.

This document outlines the guidelines and prerequisites that WV Fiber uses to determine whether a network qualifies for Settlement-Free Interconnection, also known as Peering, with AS19151. WV Fiber reserves the right to modify, replace or nullify this document at any time. All questions regarding this document, or requests for Peering, should be directed to peering@wvfiber.com.

WV Fiber, a wholly owned subsidiary of Host.net and the Carrier and Wholesale arm of the company is a global Internet and transport backbone provider, which maintains an International MPLS/IP infrastructure, operated under global Autonomous System Number 19151.  WV Fiber has an aggregate peak bandwidth utilization in excess of 200 Gbps, with a traffic ratio of 2.5:1 inbound.  There are over 7 million eyeballs on the WV Fiber network and traffic tends to flow in this direction.

This document has been last updated on August 4th, 2009.

1. Operations Requirements

1.1 Both parties shall operate an experienced, fully staffed Network Operations Center that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The network operations center shall provide an escalation path for resolving network issues in a timely fashion.  Issues of a non-emergency technical nature should be responded to within 48 hours.
1.2 Both parties must demonstrate and enforce strict filtering policies to prevent route leaks.
1.3 Both parties shall be responsive to unsolicited bulk email, hacking, Denial of Service, and other network security and abuse issues. A good faith effort should be made to provide a qualified engineer to trace ongoing network attacks within a reasonable amount of time.
1.4 Both parties shall provide access to a route server, looking glass, or similar service for the purposes of routing audits, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
1.5 Both parties should make a good faith effort to facilitate communication regarding network maintenance that will affect traffic exchange.

2. Technical Requirements

2.1 Both parties shall maintain sufficient backbone and interconnection capacity to enable saturation free delivery of the traffic being exchanged. Both parties should act proactively to establish additional capacity to accommodate traffic growth.
2.2 Both parties are expected to register their routes in a public Internet Routing Registry (IRR) database, for the purposes of filtering.  Both parties should make good faith efforts to keep this information up to date. 
2.3 Both parties shall make every reasonable effort to restrict the transmission of Denial of Service attacks and packets with forged source addresses from their network.
2.4 Both parties shall announce only their own routes and the routes of their transit customers to the other party. No other routes are permitted, and may be filtered if detected.
2.5 Neither party shall establish a static route, a route of last resort, or otherwise send traffic to the other party for a route not announced via BGP. Neither party shall alter, sell, or give next-hop to a third party. These activities are considered theft of service, and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
2.6 Neither party shall announce to the other a more specific route of a prefix heard from a third party transit customer.
2.7 Under no circumstances shall the interconnection partner be a simultaneous peer and transit customer.
2.8 Generally, AS19151 does not peer with downstream transit customers of existing peering partners but this may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

3. Interconnection Requirements

3.1 Public Interconnection Requirements - North America

3.1.a Interconnection at a minimum of three (3) diverse peering cities (one east-coast, one midwest, one west-coast).
3.1.b At least 250Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.2 Public Interconnection Requirements - Europe

3.2.a Interconnection at one (1) or more peering points in common.
3.2.b At least 125Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.3 Public Interconnection Requirements - Global

3.3.a Interconnection at two (2) geographically diverse continents (North America and Europe).
3.3.b At least 125Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.4 Private Interconnection Requirements - North America

3.4.a Private interconnection at a minimum of three (3) geographically diverse private peering cities (one east-coast, one midwest, one west-coast).
3.4.b At least 500Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.4.c Uniform interconnection speeds are preferred; interconnection should have no less than 1000Mb/s of capacity.
3.5 Private Interconnection Requirements - Europe

3.5.a Private interconnection at one (1) private peering city.
3.5.b At least 500Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.5.c Uniform interconnection speeds are preferred; interconnection should have no less than 1000Mb/s of capacity.
3.6 Private Interconnection Requirements - Global

3.6.a Private interconnection at a minimum of two (2) geographically diverse continents (North America and Europe).
3.6.b At least 500Mb/s of aggregate traffic measured at peak times must be exchanged.
3.6.c Uniform interconnection speeds are preferred; interconnection should have no less than 1000Mb/s of capacity.

4. General Policy

4.1 This policy may be updated from time to time, as market and traffic conditions affecting network interconnections change. We reserve the right to modify, replace, or nullify this document at any time.
4.2 In the event of a severe, criminal, or quality-of-service impacting violation of these policies, the interconnection may be temporarily suspended without notice.
4.3 Any interconnection may be terminated for any reason, with 30 days notice.
4.4 All requirements must be met at the time the request for Peering is made, and must continue to be met for the duration of the interconnection.
4.5 Meeting all of the requirements stated in the Policy does not guarantee we will enter a settlement-free interconnection relationship with Applicant. We reserve the right to deny settlement-free peering to an Applicant based on business reasons. We also reserve the right to make exceptions to this policy for special case or legacy peering partners.
4.6 A good faith effort should be made to split the cost, if any, for Private Network Interconnections.
4.7 Applicants must be listed and provide updated contact information (if applicable) on PeeringDB.com.
4.8 Applicants may apply for settlement-free peering once every six (6) months.
4.9 We require that Applicants seeking settlement-free peering in the United States agree to provide reciprocal settlement-free peering with AS19151 in the Applicant's home market.

 

Peering Information
ASN 19151
IRR AS-SET WVFIBER::AS-WVFIBER
Peering Information http://peering.wvfiber.com
Approx Prefix Count 10000 (IPv4) and 100 (IPv6)

Contact Information
Network Operations (E-Mail) noc@wvfiber.com
Network Operations Direct (Phone) +1 404-751-9424 or +1 888-WV-FIBER, option 4
Peering Administration (E-Mail) peering@wvfiber.com

Public Peering Locations
Exchange Point Location IPv4 Address IPv6 Address Port Speed Status Comment
Any2 Los Angeles, CA, US 206.223.143.33 2001:504:13:0:0:0:0:B 10GigE Active None
AMS-IX Amsterdam, Netherlands 195.69.145.58 2001:7F8:1::A501:9151:1 10GigE Active None
AtlantaIX Atlanta, GA, US 198.32.132.12 2001:478:132::12 10GigE Active None
ChIX Chicago, IL, US 206.51.33.15 2001:504:14::A501:9151:1 GigE Active None
CIIX/LAIIX Los Angeles, CA, US 198.32.146.59 2001:504:A::A501:9151:1 10GigE Active None
DE-CIX Frankfurt, Germany 80.81.192.220 2001:7F8::4ACF:0:1 10GigE Active None
Equinix Ashburn, VA, US 206.223.115.47 2001:504:0:2:0:1:9151:1 20GigE Active None
Equinix Chicago, IL, US 206.223.119.18 2001:504:0:4:0:1:9151:1 10GigE Active 20G Q2/09
Equinix Dallas, TX, US 206.223.118.120 2001:504:0:5:0:1:9151:1 10GigE Active None
Equinix Los Angeles, CA, US 206.223.123.59 2001:504:0:3:0:1:9151:1 10GigE Active None
Equinix Newark, NJ, US 206.223.131.33 2001:504:0:6:0:1:9151:1 10GigE Active None
Equinix San Jose, CA, US 206.223.116.18 2001:504:0:1:0:1:9151:1 10GigE Active None
LINX London, England 195.66.224.233 2001:7F8:4::4ACF:1 10GigE Active None
LoNAP London, England 193.203.5.216 2001:7F8:17::4ACF:1 GigE Active None
MadIX Madison, WI, US 144.92.233.237 2607:F388:0:2200::3 GigE Active None
NOTA Miami, FL, US 198.32.124.167 2001:478:124::167 10GigE Active None
NYIIX New York, NY, US 198.32.160.137 2001:504:1::A501:9151:1 10GigE Active None
PAIX Atlanta, GA, US 198.32.182.21 2001:504:10::15 10GigE Active None
PAIX Dallas, TX, US TBD TBD 10GigE Pending Ready Q2/09
PAIX New York, NY, US 198.32.118.68 2001:504:F::9151:1 10GigE Active None
PAIX Palo Alto, CA, US 198.32.176.164 2001:504:D::9151:1 10GigE Active None
PAIX Seattle, WA, US 198.32.134.37 2001:504:12::25 10GigE Active None
SIX Seattle, WA, US 206.81.80.85 2001:504:16::4ACF 2xGigE Active None
TorIX Toronto, Canada 198.32.245.110 2001:478:245:1::110 GigE Active None

Private Peering Locations
Facility Address NPA - NXX Notes

365 Main
The Main Exchange

365 Main St.
San Francisco, CA 94103 US

415-666

None

5Nines Data
Network222 Bldg.

222 W. Washington Ave., Ste 360
Madison, WI 53703 US

608-512

None

Ancotel

Kleyerstrasse 90
Frankfurt, 60326 Germany

N/A

None

Cincinnati Bell

209 W. 7th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202 US

513-241

None

Citynet
Zayo Bldg.

251 Neilston St.
Columbus, OH 43219 US

614-222

RR 10.46

CRG West
Market Post Tower

55 S. Market St.
San Jose, CA 95113 US

408-918

None

CRG West
One Wilshire Bldg.

624 S. Grand Ave., 8th Flr.
Los Angeles, CA 90017 US

213-489

Cab. AC07

Equinix

21715 Filigree Ct., Bldg. F
Ashburn, VA 20147 US

703-723

Cage 1050

Equinix

350 E. Cermak Rd., 5th Flr.
Chicago, IL 60616 US

312-225

Cage 990, Cab. 103

Equinix

1950 N. Stemmons Fwy., Ste. 1034
Dallas, TX 75207 US

214-782

None

Equinix

600 W. 7th St., 6th Flr.
Los Angeles, CA 90017 US

213-270

Cage 435, Cabs. 101-104

Equinix

165 Halsey St., 8th Flr
Newark, NJ 07102 US

973-792

None

Equinix

11 Great Oaks Blvd.
San Jose, CA 95119 US

408-360

Cage 1289

Host.net

3500 NW Boca Raton Blvd.
Boca Raton, FL 33431 US

561-368

800 & 900 Bldg. MMR

Host.net

3250 West Commercial Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 US

954-334

None

IRIS

211 Commerce St., Ste. 610
Nashville, TN 37201 US

615-425

None

JT Communications

55 Marietta St. NW, 5th/8th Flrs.
Atlanta, GA 30303 US

404-525

None

Lifeline Data Centers

733 W. Henry Street, 2nd Flr.
Indianapolis, IN 46225 US

317-263

C04.09_MFP 1_Left Pos. 2/Cm Carrier Cage

Miami Data Vault

100 NE 80th Ter., 1st/3rd Flrs.
Miami, FL 33138 US

305-756

1st Flr. Carrier Rm.

Switch and Data

56 Marietta St. NW, 5th/6th Flrs.
Atlanta, GA 30303 US

404-525

010.001.06.MMC3.03.06

Switch and Data

36 NE Second Ave.
Miami, FL 33132 US

305-375

Formerly Layer 1 Facility

Switch and Data
Metro Mall

1 NE 1st St.
Miami, FL 33132 US

305-375

None

Switch and Data
Suntrust Bldg.

147 Fourth Ave., 8th Flr.
Nashville, TN 37219 US

615-460

None

Switch and Data

111 8th Ave., Ste. 734
New York, NY 10011 US

212-206

032.000.07.T102.002

Switch and Data
PAIX Bldg.

529 Bryant St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301 US

650-617

99 RRB810 Shelves 1 & 2

Switch and Data
Allegheny Center Mall

100 S. Commons, Ste. 126
Pittsburgh, PA 15212 US

412-321

Cab. 23

Switch and Data
Westin Bldg.

2001 Sixth Ave., 12th Flr., Ste. 1200
Seattle, WA 98121 US

206-443

Rack D-1

Switch and Data

151 Front St., Ste. 706
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N1 Canada

416-369

None

Switch Communications
Nevada NAP

2475 Arden Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89104 US

702-444

None

TelecityGroup
Telecity 2

Kuiperberweg 13
Amsterdam 1101 AE Netherlands

N/A

Rack Z4A-G19

Telehouse
Docklands North

14 Coriander Ave.
London E14 2AA United Kingdom

N/A

Rack TFM18-A7

Telx

56 Marietta St. NW, 2nd/4th Flrs.
Atlanta, GA 30303 US

404-475

2nd Flr: Cabs. C1/C69+MMA 4th Flr: Cr. Rm.

Telx

60 Hudson St., 9th Flr.
New York, NY 10013 US

212-233

Rack 09.E3.03

Telx

120 East Van Buren Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004 US

602/222

Telx
eXchange

200 Paul Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94110 US

415-822

3rd. Flr. MMR, Cab. 516

Terremark
NAP of the Americas

50 NE 9th St., 2nd Flr.
Miami, FL 33132 US

305-373

None

XO Communications

101 Molloy St.
Nashville, TN 37201 US

615-777

RR 1.9004.8 FDP