RENU Peering Policy

Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) for Uganda, that enhances ICT-enabled collaboration among Ugandan researchers and the higher education community by linking them to their peers and partners, nationally within Uganda, regionally within Africa and internationally to the global Research and Education (R&E) communities.

RENU AS Number 327687

We are present at the Uganda Internet Exchange Point (UIXP). Please check the PeeringDB for more information.

Below is a summary of our overall peering policy:

  • We peer openly.
  • We support both public and private peering.
  • We exchange both IPv4 and IPv6 routes.
  • We do not require a minimum amount of traffic to peer.
  • We do not consider traffic ratios to peer.
  • We announce only RENU routes and RENU customer routes across our public peering sessions.
  • We do not provide any kind of global IP transit or Internet access across public peering sessions.
  • We do not support contracts for public peering.
  • We encourage peering in multiple and mutual locations.
  • We require that martian routes and a default route [0.0.0.0/0] are not announced to us through public peering.
  • We require that martian routes are not announced to us through private peering.
  • We require an escalation matrix to be able to quickly resolve possible network issues.
  • We do not support eBGP multi-hop peering sessions for private peering.