WBS Connect has been delivering critical IP solutions worldwide since 2003. WBS Connect launched its own IP product in early 2008, on top of the considerable infrastructure it built to accommodate its current customer base.

WBS Connect maintains a very selective settlement-free peering policy. However, you are encouraged to apply if you believe that your network deserves special consideration.

WBS Connect looks to peer with networks or similar size, traffic volumes and network footprint, as well as eyeball networks and CLECs.

1. Both parties shall maintain a minumum OC-192/10GE backbone network with adequate capacity to ensure delivery of traffic within normal SLA standards.
2. Both parties shall have consistent route announcements across all public and private interconnection points.
3. Both parties shall make every reasonable effort to limit and control Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and forged packets from within their network.
4. Both parties shall announce only their own routes and the those of their transit customers to one another. Route leaking is prohibited, and will be filtered if detected.
5. Both parties shall refrain from using one another as a route of last resort, or otherwise sending traffic to the other party for a route not announced via BGP.
6. WBS Connect requires an MD5 password for each BGP session.
7. Domestic networks must interconnect at a minimum of three physically diverse peering points, one in each of the following regions: West Coast (Los Angeles, San Jose or Seattle); Central (Chicago or Dallas); East Coast (New York, Ashburn, Philadelphia or Miami).
8. International networks may interconnect at a single peering point: London, Amsterdam or Hong Kong
9. Domestic public peers must sustain a minimum of 150 mbit/s of aggregate traffic based on 95th percentile calculations.
10. International public peers must sustain a minimum of 50 mbit/s of aggregate traffic based on 95th percentile calculations.
11. Any public peer sustaining in excess of 500mbit/s, domestic or international, must agree to peer privately with interconnection costs to be shared by both parties.
12. Both parties shall maintain enough capacity on public peering ports to ensure delivery of traffic within normal SLA standards.
13. Private peers must sustain a minimum of 500 mbit/s of aggregate traffic based on 95th percentile calculations. Both parties shall maintain enough capacity on private interconnection ports to ensure delivery of traffic within normal SLA standards.
14. Both parties shall maintain Network Operations Center that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
15. Both parties shall provide advance notice of any planned maintenance, and immediate notice of any unplanned outages, affecting any interconnection.
16. In order to qualify for settlement-free peering, the interconnecting partner may not have been a WBS Connect IP transit customer in the past six months. This applies to ASN 19080 or any other resold transit purchased from WBS Connect.
17. Any settlement-free peering agreement may be terminated for any reason with 30 days written notice to the other party.
18. WBS Connect reserves the right to decline any settlement-free peering request at any time, for any reason.
19. WBS Connect reserves the right to modify this policy at any time, for any reason.