TransitRail Peer Information
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TransitRail (AS11164) encompasses a large cross-section of the research and education networks in the United States.
Who is TransitRail?
CENIC and PNWGP are jointly implementing and operating the TransitRail facility. These groups have significant individual and joint experience with peering facilities and existing relationships with prospective peering partners. Together they have a combined track record of nearly 20 years of commodity peering activity.
Joint operations of a peering facility are not new to PNWGP and CENIC. Together, they have successfully and jointly operated the extended R&E Pacific Wave peering facilities (Seattle, Sunnyvale and Los Angeles) since 2004. Their working relationship is already well cemented with communications and processes that can be leveraged in support of TransitRail.
CENIC and PNWGP staff are experienced in all facets of peering: peering solicitations, contracts, policies, infrastructure, monitoring, reporting, routing, troubleshooting, NOC-related functions and participant support.
CENIC and PNWGP already have over 80 established peering relationships with major regional and national entities. A majority of CENIC's and PNWGP's existing commodity peers will all be available for participation in TransitRail.
TransitRail Locations
TransitRail is available for peering sessions at any of the following locations:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Equinix (LA1) 600 W 7th
- Equinix (LA2) 818 W 7th
- One Wilshire 624 S Grand
- Seattle, WA Westin Building, 2001 Sixth Ave
- Palo Alto, CA Switch & Data/PAIX 529 Bryant
- Chicago, IL Equinix [CH1]
- Ashburn, VA Equinix [DC3]
TransitRail Peering Policies
Transit Rail executes a selective peering policy focused on reliable delivery of IP connectivity. This includes Gigabit or larger interconnects in geographically dispersed locations, aggregation of substantial amounts of traffic, and Engineering/Operations teams available 24x7 for problem resolution and denial of service mitigation.
Peering Requests
Requests to peer with TransitRail should be sent to peering@transitrail.net