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IP Transit

Introduction to IP Transit

Interoute offers customers the choice of two IP Transit services; Global Transit, which is an IP Transit services advertising routes to all Internet destinations, and Euro Transit, which advertises a partial routing table of Interoute's direct customers and peers.

Interoute's IP Data Services include a complete range of port and access types, billing options, service features, on-line tools and reports, backed by tough Service Level Agreements.

When you combine the power of Interoute's IP network, its scalability and reach, reliability and robustness, and service features, it is clear that Interoute's customers receive a premium IP service.

Global Transit

Interoute's Global Transit Service connects your network to our IP network enabling it to become part of the Internet. To connect to this service you will need an Autonomous System Number and a range of provider independant (PI) public IP addresses, which are allocated to you by an Internet registry such as RIPE. Interoute's Global Transit service will advertise to you a full Internet routing table using the Internet protocol BGP-4. Interoute will then announce your networks to the rest of the Internet.

EuroTransit

EuroTransit builds on Interoute's backbone infrastructure to offer customers a unique opportunity to improve European connectivity and cut operating costs in a simple connectivity package.

EuroTransit advertises all of Interoute's peer and customer routes (detailed routing information is available on request). With EuroTransit, a customer receives a routing table advertisement that includes between 40% and 50% of the full Internet routing table served over a single-hop high performance network at a fraction of the cost of standard IP transit.

By running the service in parallel to your existing upstream connections, you can route a significant proportion of your traffic over our low-cost high performance network, enabling you to reduce your overall transit costs. What's more, our uncontended multi-10 gigabit backbone directly connects to all the major peering exchanges over the shortest possible route to deliver significantly better overall performance.

Because EuroTransit leverages Interoute's extensive network scale and customer/peering relationships, it presents customers with a cost effective low risk alternative to building a peering network, which by comparison can be expensive, difficult to scale and complex to build and operate.