Peninsula Fiber Network Network Management Policy

PFN Network Management Policy

Peninsula Fiber Network (PFN) displays network management policies at http://www.pfnllc.net/policy

PFN's current network management policy is standard best effort Internet delivery with no mechanism to differentiate nor prioritize among Internet services or protocols.

Customers are rate-limited to their purchased or agreed-to data transmission rate at the PFN-Customer defined demarcation point or the next physical connection closer to the PFN backbone network. Rate-limiting is protocol agnostic.

It is the policy of PFN to not favor any lawful Internet application and content over others.

PFN adheres to the principles contained in the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement (FCC 05–151, adopted August 5, 2005):

end users are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice;
end users are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement;
end users are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network;
end users are entitled to competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.

The capacity of the PFN network is designed to transport traffic without congestion. The network capacity infrastructure will be increased if consistent load on a network segment is above 85% utilization for a continuous one-hour period for seven out of fourteen consecutive days; typically the network will be upgraded well before the 85% threshold is reached.

Congestion due to malfunctioning hardware and/or software will be remedied as quickly as network engineers can diagnose and identify the offending hardware / software.

Congestion due to malice will be remedied using any technique available, including protocol-aware filtering and rate-limiting, to control and limit the offending source. PFN may seek criminal charges against those who inflict network malice; PFN may also attempt to recover costs incurred from network malice.

PFN's public Internet egress/ingress is multi-homed.

The PFN network offers wholesale service to several ISPs and broadband providers under contractual terms. PFN will negotiate in good faith with all parties making a bona fide request for interconnection. PFN and the requesting party may negotiate terms such as business arrangements, capacity limits, financial terms, and technical conditions for interconnection. If PFN and the requesting party cannot reach agreement, we may voluntarily seek an interpretation by the FCC of any FCC rules implicated in the dispute. PFN has successfully negotiated interconnection terms with numerous carriers, therefore PFN does not anticipate the need for arbitration to determine interconnection terms. However, if mutually acceptable terms cannot be reached PFN will consider arbitration as a measure of last resort.