ISP Peering Program
G4 Communications "Open Peering Policy"
As part of our commitment to providing the best service and reach to our customers we are constantly striving to improve our connectivity.
Peering interconnect arrangements between Internet communications providers has become essential to provide the reach, diversity and low latency connectivity, in a rapidly evolving global infrastructure.
We are steadily adding new peering partners based on the quality of their networks, the volume of traffic they carry and the volume of traffic exchanged between our networks (AS10367).
Expanding peering enables G4 to speed information hand off between our customers and other ISPs on the Internet.
Settlement-Free Peering Policy for G4 Communications
This document outlines the guidelines and prerequisites that G4 Communications uses to determine whether a provider qualifies for peering. G4 Communications reserves the right to modify, replace, or nullify this document at any time.
About G4 Communications
G4 Communications is a full-service Internet solutions provider, which maintains an Regional IP infrastructure operated under global Autonomous System Number 10367. G4 Communications has an aggregate bandwidth utilization to the Internet of approximately 1 Gbps, with a 2:1 traffic ratio in favor of outbound.
Internet Peering Requirements
Presence at one or more Public Internet Exchange Point(s), please inquire for a complete list of exchange points that G4 Communications has a presence at.
Both parties shall operate an experienced Network Operations Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The network operations center should have a 24 x 7 escalation path to senior level engineers for resolving issues in a timely manner.
Potential peering partners must demonstrate and enforce strict filtering policies to prevent route leaks.
A good faith effort should be made to facilitate communication regarding network maintenance that will affect traffic exchange.
Both parties shall be responsive to unsolicited bulk email and Denial of Service attacks, as well as other network abuse complaints. A good faith effort should be made to provide a qualified engineer to trace ongoing network attacks within a reasonable amount of time.
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Both parties should maintain sufficient connectivity to enable saturation free delivery of traffic.
Neither party shall point default at one another. Neither party shall modify, sell, or provide the next-hop to a third party.
Private Network Interconnection Policy
A minimum of 1 Mbps daily average aggregate traffic must be exchanged in any direction across all interconnection points.
Each connection should be at least 3 Mbps in capacity delivered and utilization should not exceed more than 80% of the available bandwidth between peering parties.
Peering party should not be a current or during past 6 months, transit IP customer of G4 Communications.
Private peering is available at 1 and 25 Sundial Avenue, Manchester, NH, 25 Concord Street (Verizon CO), Manchester, NH, or 1 Summer Street, Boston, MA.
General Policy
G4 Communications reserves the right to modify, replace, or nullify this document at any time.
Any interconnection may be terminated for any reason, with 30 days notice.
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