Our catalog includes data center services, IaaS services, and connectivity services. Many of our customers’ questions are related to the latter, so in this content, we aim to address the most frequent and relevant ones. This way, you can find all the specific information about our Internet access services in one place, presented in a clear and concise format.
1. Who are Adam’s transit providers?
We are an Internet Service Provider (ISP) operating with Autonomous System (AS) 15699. We are connected to multiple transit providers, including Colt, NTT, Cogent, and Aire Networks (with connections in Barcelona and Madrid) and have direct peering at three neutral points: ESPANIX, CATNIX, and DECIX.
This setup allows us to route and balance traffic as needed to avoid potential issues, interruptions, and degradation, whether they stem from geographical exchange points or the carriers themselves.
As an ISP, we offer our own connectivity services in our data centers through different modalities:
- Internet Access: Adam assigns a range of its addressing to the customer.
- PI Range Announcement: Adam announces customers’ Provider Independent (PI) prefixes through its Autonomous System (AS).
- Internet Transit: Adam provides Internet transit to customers with their own AS and addressing through the establishment of a BGP session.
Adam’s connectivity services can be contracted in either single or redundant connection modes.
2. Do you provide internet access services in IPv6?
Yes, Adam provides Internet connection services with both IPv4 and IPv6. Connections are established in dual-stack mode, delivering both IPv4 and IPv6 services through a single connection.
3. Do you offer blackhole services for internet traffic?
Yes, customers with Internet transit service have the option to use the blackhole service in their BGP session with Adam.
To send an IP to blackhole, the IP must be announced with the corresponding community, as stipulated in RFC7999.
4. What security measures or management practices are applied to connectivity or internet traffic services?
Our border devices send connection information to our traffic monitoring and analysis system to detect and neutralize denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
5. Do you apply any filters to internet traffic?
No, we do not apply any filters to our customers’ Internet traffic. We simply collect the traffic arriving at our border devices and route it to the customer’s connection.
Additional features of our connectivity services
- We do not perform RPKI origin validation on prefixes announced by our BGP transit customers, but we recommend that customers generate ROAs for their prefixes to ensure they are accepted by autonomous systems that enforce strict origin validation.
- We are part of the MANRS initiative (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) promoted by the Internet Society, applying best practices to prevent common risks and threats in Internet routing.
- As a neutral data center, in addition to our own connectivity services, we offer meet-me room services, allowing customers to contract Internet access services with other operators.
Do you have more questions about our connectivity services?
In this text, we have addressed the most frequently asked questions from customers interested in contracting or who have already contracted our connectivity services. If you haven’t found the answer to your question, our team is here to help!
This article has been written by
Ferran Pons
Coordinador del Área Network Operations Center