Bat Blue Peering Policy


About Bat Blue
Bat Blue Corporation is a provider of complete IP network and security solutions for organizational clients. These solutions encompass needs assessment, architecture, implementation, long-term infrastructure management, as well as IP and transport network services.

Bat Blue's BlueNET IP network is a true 10Gig network that leverages terabit carrier-grade fully redundant infrastructure spanning the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state region. BlueNET delivers high-performance IPv4, IPv6, and transport services to over 100,000 organizational users.

Bat Blue's Peering Policy
The following serves to describe the peering policy for Bat Blue's Autonomous System 25885:
  • All peers must supply both voice and email operations contact that is available 24x7.
  • Peers must not utilize any form of gateway of last resort or default route that is directed at Bat Blue.
  • Peer must not sell or offer next-hop to Bat Blue for any third-party.
  • Peer must not re-advertise routes for Bat Blue's AS to any third-party.
  • A good faith effort should be made to aggregate route announcements as much as is practical.
  • All announcements are to be consistent, in terms of prefix aggregation properties, across all peering points.
  • Peers are expected to filter their clients and third-parties to reject both unauthorized BGP announcements as well as IP traffic with invalid source addresses.
  • Bat Blue will not maintain both a transit and peering relationship with a given network simultaneously.
  • Bat Blue reserves the right to suspend peering for an indefinite period of time should any form of network abuse be verified to take place via the peering interconnect. Such abuse may include but is not limited to:
      • Denial of Service attacks
      • Unsolicited Bulk Email sources
      • Setting default-route to Bat Blue

Bat Blue's final decision in peering is based on a mutually agreeable arrangement around operational needs. If operational needs cause a peering arrangement to conflict with the best interest of Bat Blue or its clients, Bat Blue reserves the right to terminate the peering agreement with reasonable advance notice.

Bat Blue Peering Contact Data
Peering requesters and partners may contact Bat Blue's Operations Center with the following contact information:
NOC/SOC Phone: 212.461.3322 x1
NOC/SOC e-mail:bbsoc@batblue.com
Peering e-mail:peering@batblue.net

Bat Blue Peering Networks
  • New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX)
  • The Big Apple Peering Exchange (Big APE) [formerly NY6IX]
  • Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) New York, NY
  • Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) Atlanta, GA
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