Peering
Absolute Radio UK Access Network
Absolute Radio is a national UK radio station based in London. We were the first radio station in Europe to launch a live internet stream, and the first commercial broadcaster in Britain to join the London Internet Exchange (LINX). Thousands of people listen to our radio services via the internet, and many of them may be people connected to your network. We aim to get our content to as many people as possible, at as high a quality as possible, and as efficiently as possible.
Absolute Radio, therefore, operates an open peering policy, subject to you meeting the following requirements:
- We require you to be able to respond to issues by email or telephone 24/7, ideally through a staffed operations centre.
- We do not require a formal peering agreement, but we will sign one, subject to negotiation, if you require it.
- We do not require BGP sessions to be configured with MD5 passwords, although we will implement them if requested.
Note, also, that we operate 'hot potato' routing, and do not necessarily honour MEDs.
If you would like to peer with us, please email peering@timlradio.co.uk, or call our Service Desk on +44 845 356 1111, and select option 2.
To contact our Technical Operations Centre (in case of routing problems and outages, etc.), please email toc@timlradio.co.uk, or call our Service Desk on +44 845 356 1111, and select option 2.
We operate one Autonomous System, AS34763, announcing AS-VIRGINRADIO.
Our routing policies are registered at
RIPE. We have a public Looking Glass server at
lg.absoluteradio.co.uk.
We are currently members of the following Internet Exchanges:
| Exchange | Location | IP Address | Connection Speed |
|---|
| Correct as at 03 February 2008 |
| AMS-IX | Sara, Amsterdam,
Netherlands | 195.69.145.105
2001:7F8:1::A503:4763:1 | 1 x FE |
| Any2 | One Wilshire,
Los Angeles USA | 206.223.143.91
2001:504:13::5 | 1 x GigE |
| BigAPE | TelX, 60 Hudson St,
New York USA | 198.32.238.31 | 1 x GigE |
| CIIX | One Wilshire,
Los Angeles USA | 198.32.146.18
2001:504:a::a503:4763:1 | 1 x GigE |
| DE-CIX | InterXion FRA1,
Frankfurt Germany | 80.81.192.252
2001:7F8::87CB:0:1 | 1 x FE |
| LINX | Telehouse North,
London UK | Foundry Network:
195.66.224.179
2001:7f8:4:0::87cb:1
Extreme Network:
195.66.226.179
2001:7f8:4:1::87cb:2 | 4 x GigE |
| LoNAP | Telehouse North,
London UK | 193.203.5.156
193.203.5.157
2001:7f8:17::87cb:1
2001:7f8:17::87cb:2 | 2 x GigE |
| MaNAP | TeleCity Williams House,
Manchester UK | 212.121.34.63
| 1 x FE |
| MCIX | TeleCity Williams House,
Manchester UK | 85.159.209.25
| 1 x FE |
| NYIIX | TelX, 60 Hudson St,
New York USA | 198.32.160.160
2001:504:1::a503:4763:1 | 1 x GigE |
| PacketExchange | Telehouse North,
London UK | As assigned by
PacketExchange | 1 x GigE |
| PAIX-NY | TelX, 60 Hudson St,
New York USA | 198.32.118.48 | 1 x GigE |
| XchangePoint | Telehouse North,
London UK | 217.79.160.169 | 1 x GigE |
Where the quantity of data justifies it we may ask to move to private peering.
We are also developing multicast versions of our streams, and are therefore keen to peer with multicast-enabled ISPs. We are currently members of the following multicast-enabled exchanges:
| Exchange | Location | IP Address | Connection Speed |
|---|
| Correct as at 8 June 2007 |
| Any2 | One Wilshire,
Los Angeles USA | 206.223.143.91 | 1 x GigE |
| LINX | Telehouse North,
London UK | 195.66.230.64 | 1 x FE |
| LoNAP | Telehouse North,
London UK | 195.35.120.157 | 1 x GigE |
| PAIX-NY | TelX, 60 Hudson St,
New York USA | 198.31.119.1 | 1 x GigE |
Please check back to this page for future updates as we continue to build and develop our network.