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SATIS Network Expansion: BGP Peering Now Available in Dallas and Buffalo

March 18, 2026 • Setec Astronomy, Inc.
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We're expanding the SATIS threat intelligence network. Two new nodes are now live and accepting BGP peering sessions from customers.

New Peering Locations

Location IP ASN Upstream
DFW — Dallas, TX 162.216.123.135 AS64282 LINKSECURED LLC
BUF — Buffalo, NY 107.174.35.183 AS36352 ColoCrossing

Both nodes run BIRD 2 with full access to the SATIS threat feed. They receive routes from the central route server over encrypted WireGuard tunnels and announce severity-tagged BGP communities to their peers in real time.

Why This Matters

Until today, all BGP peering sessions terminated at our primary infrastructure. That works well for customers in the Northeast, but it adds unnecessary latency for networks in the South, Midwest, and Central US.

With a peering node in Dallas, a customer in Texas or Oklahoma now gets threat routes delivered through a node that's a few milliseconds away instead of a few hundred. Blackhole route convergence happens faster, and BGP session stability improves because there's less path variance.

The Buffalo node serves customers in the Great Lakes region, Eastern Canada, and the mid-Atlantic where ColoCrossing has strong peering relationships.

How It Works

The architecture is the same regardless of which node you peer with:

  1. A threat is published to the SATIS blockchain from any participating node
  2. Within 15 seconds (one block), every node has the threat
  3. The BGP injector on your peering node injects a /32 or /128 route tagged with the appropriate severity community (64999:1 through 64999:4, plus 64999:666 for blackhole-action threats)
  4. BIRD announces the route over your GRE or WireGuard session
  5. Your edge router installs the route and null-routes malicious traffic before it enters your network

The blockchain is the single source of truth. Every peering node — whether it's our primary infrastructure or the new Dallas node — works from the same immutable threat ledger. There's no per-node threat database to sync, no propagation delay between PoPs, and no risk of one location being out of date.

Setting Up a Peering Session

Peering is self-service and activates instantly. From your portal:

  1. Go to BGP Peering tab
  2. Enter your ASN and router's public IP
  3. Select your preferred location (DFW or BUF)
  4. Choose your severity threshold (Critical only → All threats)
  5. Click Create Session

Your overlay IPv4 addresses and IPv6 tunnel endpoint are assigned immediately. Click Setup Guides to get a platform-specific configuration for Junos, Cisco IOS-XR, VyOS, FRR, or BIRD.

BGP peering is available on Professional ($299/mo) and Enterprise ($999/mo) plans.

What's Next

We're continuing to grow the network. If you have a specific region where you'd like to see a SATIS peering node, let us know.

SATIS is a real-time threat intelligence platform by Setec Astronomy, Inc. (AS23026). Threats are distributed across a permissioned blockchain and enforced via BGP blackhole routing and nftables in under 10 seconds.

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