Public peering
Public peering is the central service offered by the NAP.
Operators connect their Border Routers to the NAP technological platform, which works to assures mutual visibility to all adherents on a single public VLAN.
Public peering agreements are implemented for free Internet traffic interexchange among NAP adherents owning at least one AS and having IPv4 address space.
They are based on the BGP4 protocol and do not provide transit service.
Private peering
Private peering is an added value service of the NAP .
Private peering agreements are implemented on private VLAN, allowing reciprocal visibility exclusively to those concerned.
In order to calculate the effective bandwidth usage, the private peering traffic is added to the public peering traffic.
Rates and fees for Peering service
Rates and fees (VAT not included) effective from January 01, 2022.
| ANNUAL PARTICIPATION FEE € |
| 500 |
| Category Peering |
Access Interface | Nominal Band | Monthly Fee | |
| A | GE | 100 Mbps | € 100 | |
| B | GE / 10GE | 1 Gbps | € 250 |  |
| C * | 10 GE | 2 Gbps | € 500 | |
| D * | 10 GE | 10 Gbps | € 700 | |
| E * | 25 GE | 25 Gbps | € 1.250 | |
| F * | 100 GE | 150 Gbps | € 2.000 | |
| G * | 100GE | 100Gbps | € 2.750 | |
* Without additional costs for 10/25GbaseLR and 100GbaseLR4 transceivers
Rates and fees for Colocation service
Rates (VAT not included) effective from January 01, 2021.
Colocation prices include patching facilities
Extra energy consumption must be agreed between the parts
Each NAP participant has to pay anticipately to the University of Padua Centro di Ateneo per la Connettività e i Servizi al Territorio - VSIX:
- annual participation fee
- annual fee for the nominal bandwidth
- annual fee for the colocation
At the participant's charge:
- connection expenses to the NAP
- configuration of own devices