Peer with AS45437 and your packets to our networks take the direct path — straight onto an operational Australian network, not via an international transit hop. AS45437 is the carrier layer behind HyperConnect retail, our wholesale ISP customers and our enterprise and government services, so a session with us reaches real traffic, real eyeballs and our seven-city datacentre footprint (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin and Perth).
We run an open, settlement-free peering policy for domestic Australian networks. The bar is deliberately low — an active AS number, at least a /24 of routable space, and a 100 Mbps session. We don't enforce traffic ratios and we don't set a volume floor; we run approximately balanced ingress and egress and would rather peer widely. We don't charge for peering, either — the only costs are the port-access and cross-connect fees the IXP or datacentre charges, which sit between you and the facility, not us.
We peer at IAA (Internet Association of Australia), Megaport and Equinix — between them, the reach that covers almost every network in the country, plus cloud-direct and DC cross-connect. The authoritative, always-current list of locations, port capacities and contacts lives in our PeeringDB record at as45437.peeringdb.com.
How to request a session
Email [email protected] to reach the network team directly. Tell us your ASN (and AS-SET if you maintain one), your IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes, where you'd like to peer — IAA, Megaport, Equinix or all three — and whether you want dual-stack sessions or separate v4 and v6. That's enough to get a session scoped and turned up. You'll be talking to an engineer who runs the network, not a wholesaler ticket queue.
Peering and IP Transit are complementary
Peering is settlement-free: we exchange routes for the networks we each originate, and traffic between us takes the direct path, at no cost. IP Transit is the commercial product — wholesale IP from AS45437 that delivers your traffic to the rest of the internet, priced per Mbps. Most networks buy transit from one or two upstreams and peer widely with everyone else; that's how the modern internet is built, and how we run our own network. If you're sizing both, or want to fold peering into a broader Carrier Services conversation, ask for the peering team and we'll work it through.
What's included
- AS45437 — operated by Real World Networks (the carrier layer behind RWTS and HyperConnect)
- Open peering policy for domestic Australian networks
- Peered at IAA (Internet Association of Australia), Megaport and Equinix
- Free settlement-free peering — no port fees from us, though private peering may incur port access and cross-connect costs at the IXP or DC
- Approximately balanced ingress / egress — we are not a traffic-ratio enforcer
- No traffic-volume requirement
- Minimum peering speed: 100 Mbps
- Minimum requirement: active AS number and at least /24 of resources
- PeeringDB record at as45437.peeringdb.com
Why it matters
At the exchanges that matter in Australia
IAA is the major Australian peering exchange, and we're there. Megaport gives us cloud-direct peering reach. Equinix gives us DC cross-connect peering. The three exchanges between them cover almost every network in the country.
We carry actual traffic
AS45437 is not a paper network. It carries HyperConnect retail traffic, ISP wholesale traffic and enterprise customer traffic across the multi-carrier mesh we operate — so a session with us reaches real networks, not an empty advertisement.
Technologies we use
- Real World Networks (AS45437)
- IAA (Internet Association of Australia)
- Megaport
- Equinix
- BGP (IPv4 and IPv6)
- PeeringDB