Frankfurt
OperationalAS218995-FRA
Central Europe
AS218995 · European IP transit network
IP transit without the enterprise overhead.
Real BGP transit from Frankfurt and Milan. Straightforward pricing, fast provisioning and infrastructure built for operators.
- Frankfurt— Operational
- Milan— Operational
- Core— Operational
Network
AS218995
FRA · MIL
AS218995
European IP transit
Frankfurt and Milan. Select a node for the path.
Frankfurt → AMS-IX
3 ms
Frankfurt → DE-CIX
2 ms
Milan → MIX-IT
4 ms
Frankfurt → Milan
6 ms
AS218995
European IP transit
Frankfurt and Milan. Select a node for the path.
Frankfurt → AMS-IX
3 ms
Frankfurt → DE-CIX
2 ms
Milan → MIX-IT
4 ms
Frankfurt → Milan
6 ms
Latency
<10ms
To most European IXs
Capacity
1 Tbps
Combined capacity
Turn-up
<2hr
Average turn-up
Footprint
2
PoPs · Frankfurt and Milan
Network status
All systems operational
AS218995 · FRA · MIL
Milan
OperationalAS218995-MIL
Southern Europe
Core
OperationalRouting infrastructure
AS218995
What ShadowIP does
Built for operators, not for procurement.
No sales calls. No NDAs. Just two PoPs, a BGP session, and transit that works.
01 — BGP
Real BGP
Full control over your announcements. IPv4 and IPv6, custom communities, and prefix filtering that doesn't get in your way.
- IPv4 + IPv6
- Custom communities
- Prefix filtering
- BGP sessions
Example session · documentation address
neighbor 203.0.113.1 remote-as 218995
02 — Footprint
Two strategic PoPs
Frankfurt and Milan. That's it. We're not pretending to be global. Those two locations cover AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX, and smaller exchanges.
Frankfurt
Central Europe
Milan
Southern Europe
AS218995
03 — Mitigation
DDoS protection
L3–L7 mitigation sits upstream. Clean traffic doesn't get billed. Attack traffic gets scrubbed.
04 — Provisioning
Live in hours
Order, verify your prefixes, and you're announcing. Usually under two hours from checkout.
01
Order
02
Verify prefixes
03
BGP session
04
Live
One dashboard for usage graphs, invoices, and tickets. PayPal, crypto, or bank transfer. No enterprise billing process.
The network
Two PoPs. One AS. Done right.
We're not pretending to be a global carrier. We're a focused network with presence where it matters most for European traffic. Frankfurt covers Germany and central Europe. Milan covers Italy and southern Europe. Everything else is one hop away via our upstreams.
- Multi-homed upstreams — no single point of failure
- Unmetered bandwidth on every tier
- IPv6-native from day one
- Prefixes validated automatically, not manually
LINX and smaller exchanges are part of the published coverage. The diagram shows the paths that have a published latency: AMS-IX, DE-CIX, MIX-IT, and Frankfurt to Milan.
Topology
AS218995
AS218995
European IP transit
Frankfurt and Milan. Select a node for the path.
Frankfurt → AMS-IX
3 ms
Frankfurt → DE-CIX
2 ms
Milan → MIX-IT
4 ms
Frankfurt → Milan
6 ms
AS218995
Frankfurt
PoP · Central Europe · AS218995-FRA
- AMS-IX · 3 ms
- DE-CIX · 2 ms
Milan
PoP · Southern Europe · AS218995-MIL
- MIX-IT · 4 ms
Upstreams
Multi-homed. Carriers are not listed.
Frankfurt → Milan · 6 ms
Why not the big players?
Because you're not a Fortune 500.
Hurricane Electric and Cogent are great — if you're a carrier. We built ShadowIP for the rest of us: ISPs, hosting companies, VPN operators, and ambitious hobbyists.
Free tier
- ShadowIP
- Yes
- Hurricane Electric
- —No
- Cogent
- —No
- NTT
- —No
BGP included
- ShadowIP
- Yes
- Hurricane Electric
- Yes
- Cogent
- Yes
- NTT
- Yes
Setup fee
- ShadowIP
- $0
- Hurricane Electric
- $0
- Cogent
- $0
- NTT
- $0
DDoS protection
- ShadowIP
- Included
- Hurricane Electric
- Paid
- Cogent
- Paid
- NTT
- Paid
IPv4 + IPv6
- ShadowIP
- Yes
- Hurricane Electric
- Yes
- Cogent
- Yes
- NTT
- Yes
48h money-back
- ShadowIP
- Yes
- Hurricane Electric
- No
- Cogent
- No
- NTT
- No
Pricing
Start free. Pay when it makes sense.
The free tier is real. The paid tiers are straightforward. No setup fees, no contracts, no minimum terms.
Transit Free
transit-free-1g
Community IP transit for small projects and experimentation.
$0/mo
- Port
- 1 Gbps IP transit
- BGP sessions
- 1
- Protocol
- IPv6 ready
- Policy
- Community routing policy
Transit 1G
Populartransit-1g
Reliable upstream for production networks and services.
$29/mo
- Port
- 1 Gbps IP transit
- BGP sessions
- 4
- Protocol
- IPv4 + IPv6 ready
- DDoS
- Upstream DDoS protection
Transit 10G
transit-10g
High-capacity transit for ISPs, CDNs and heavy workloads.
$199/mo
- Port
- 10 Gbps IP transit
- BGP sessions
- Unlimited
- Protocol
- IPv4 + IPv6 ready
- DDoS
- Upstream DDoS protection
No setup fees. No contracts. No minimum terms.
48h money-back
Try it without the long-term commitment.
Try a paid plan. If it's not what you expected, we'll refund the first payment — no forms, no calls, no "are you sure?" dialogues.
48h
Money-back
No questions asked.
0h
Order
<2hr
Typical turn-up
48h
Money-back window
Support
Talk to the people who run the network.
Our support is handled by the same people who run the network. Not a tiered help desk, not a chatbot pretending to be an engineer. If you open a ticket, someone who knows BGP responds.
- 01Average response under 2 hours
- 02Tickets handled by network engineers
- 03No canned responses or knowledge base links
- 04Direct escalation to upstream providers when needed
Ticket #218995
Example
Network engineering
- Status
- Responded
- Response time
- 01:34:21
Prefixes validated. Session is up.
Reading
From the network.
Network5 min
How we built a transit network in Frankfurt and Milan
Two PoPs, one AS, and the paths those sites publish to AMS-IX, DE-CIX, and MIX-IT.
Read article
Mitigation7 min
Why most 'DDoS protection' is just marketing
What upstream L3–L7 mitigation means here: attack traffic is scrubbed, and clean traffic is not billed.
Read article
Transit4 min
Free transit, real BGP: how the free tier works
The free tier is 1 Gbps of real BGP. Bandwidth is capped. If you outgrow it, you upgrade.
Read article
Questions
People ask us.
We're a small network operator with our own AS (218995) and PoPs in Frankfurt and Milan. We sell IP transit — meaning we announce your prefixes and route your traffic. Simple as that.
Those two PoPs give us low-latency paths to almost every major European IX. We built where the internet actually is, not where it looks good on a map.
Yes — on every plan, including the free one. Full control over your announcements, IPv4 and IPv6, communities if you need them.
Usually under two hours. We validate your prefixes, build your session, and you're live. No ticket queue, no phone call required.
There isn't one. You get 1 Gbps, real BGP, real DDoS protection. We just cap the bandwidth. If you outgrow it, upgrade — that's the whole model.
Ready to announce?
Get your prefixes live on AS218995. Free tier is instant, paid tiers are provisioned in hours.