How do I get connected ?

It is easy for Internet2 Connectors to get connected to the Commercial Peering Service (CPS).    Simply call or email the Internet2 NOC and let them know you'd like to get connected to CPS.  An engineer will contact you to go over the steps to get connected and answer any questions you may have.

The engineer will ask you some questions about how your Commodity Internet (CI) connections are currently configured and how much CI bandwidth you currently use.    They will verify that your existing Internet2 connection can sustain your current  Internet2 traffic loads, the anticipated traffic loads of your CI bandwidth and any unused "overhead" bandwidth you'd like to maintain on your link.

If you do not already have 802.1q VLAN encapsulation (or Frame-Relay encapsulation) enabled on your connection, the engineer will schedule a time to add this to your link.

Once that's done, they will work with you to configure a second VLAN (or DLCI) and BGP session for CPS and schedule a time to turn-up the service.

You will need to provide the NOC with a list of BGP ASN's (or a reference to an IRR AS-SET Object ) that you will be advertising to the  Peering Service.