Charter Settlement Free Peering Guidelines

1. Must be present in more than one common Private Public Peering location listed below (different time zones)

Equinix
11 Great Oak, San Jose, CA

Equinix
350 Cermak, Chicago, IL

Telx
56 Marietta, Atlanta, GA

Equinix
600 W 7th, Los Angeles, CA

Equinix
20715 Filigree Ct, Ashburn, VA

2. Must use the same ASN at each peering interconnect

3. Must maintain a minimum traffic exchange of 250Mbps (95th percentile) with AS20115

4. Must enter into a NDA & Bilateral Interconnection Agreement and assume financial and provisioning responsibility for cross connects on an alternating/bilateral basis

5. Must maintain a professional Network Operations Center staffed 24x7x365

6. Must maintain consistent global routing announcements at all peering locations

7. Must not implement a “gateway of last resort” or default route directed at AS20115

8. Must demonstrate and enforce strict filtering policies to prevent improper announcements

9. Must advertise routes, including customer routes, but eliminate all transit or third party routes

10. Must provide only IPv4 route advertisements and will not provide route advertisements more specific than a /24

11. Must use BGP version 4 with BGP authentication keys

12. Must not abuse the peering relationship by doing any of the following:
a. Resetting next hop
b. Reselling, bartering, trading or giving either routes or next hop to third parties (non-customers)
c. Leaking routes to third parties (non-customers)
d. Sending inconsistent prefixes (in number, origin, or other attributes) unless agreed to in writing

13. Must register routes or send advance notice of dramatic changes in announcements

14. Must advertise/implement routes consistent with "shortest exit routing", unless agreed to in writing

15. Must agree to actively cooperate in resolving items in the following:
a. Security violations
b. Denial of service attacks
c. Network abuse (including but not limited to spam issues)
d. Downed peering sessions, interfaces, or circuits
e. Disrupted, damaged, or flapping peering sessions
f. Similar/related infrastructure and security issues

16. Must be willing to upgrade interconnection capacity within 90 days when peak usage, for a time period greater than 10 business days, has surpassed 70% of a circuit's port capacity as well as participate in joint capacity reviews at pre-set intervals

17. Must be able to transport capacity greater than, the interconnecting port speed

18. Must utilize RADB or mirrored IRR resources and shall be configured with max prefix limits, allowing 25% headroom, based upon registered/announced routes

19. Must agree not to offer or sell any IP transit service providing only AS20115

Meeting the guidelines is not a guarantee that peering will be established. Charter Communications reserves the right to refuse peering to the applicant based on business reasons, without requirement of disclosure. Charter Communications will not peer with any network that has been an IP transit customer within the past six (6) months. Charter Communications reserves the right to terminate public peering at any time with 30 days' notice. Such advanced notice is neither guaranteed nor required for unresponsive, abusive, or negligent peers.

Charter Communications reserves the right to change this peering policy without notice. To request a Peering arrangement with Charter Communications, please send an email request including a network map, proposal of mutual points of interconnect and anticipated volumes to peering@charter.com