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NETWORK · AS137492

Punjab backbone,
routes published.

Fourteen PoPs across ten cities, ring-protected on the Lahore–Islamabad–Faisalabad triangle, with metro builds inside the major industrial estates. We publish per-segment latency, handoff specs and route diversity on request — not just on a sales call.

Backbone
1.6 Tbps
Coherent 100G/400G
Cities
10
14 PoPs
Avg p95 RTT
9.4 ms
Inter-PoP, last 90 d
Availability
99.99%
Core, 12-mo
COVERAGE
LHE Lahore ISB Islamabad / Rawalpindi FSD Faisalabad MUL Multan GUJ Gujranwala SKT Sialkot BWP Bahawalpur SGD Sargodha SAH Sahiwal DGK DG Khan N 0 75 KM 150 PUNJAB BACKBONE · DWDM 100G/400G · IRU + LIT CAPACITY

Cities and routes shown reflect the Q-2 2026 capacity plan. Tail-end towns are reachable via aggregation hops — see the city list below.

POP INVENTORY

Where we are, in plain text.

Code City Role PoPs
LHE Lahore Core / DC 4
ISB Islamabad / Rawalpindi Core / Peering 2
FSD Faisalabad Core 2
MUL Multan Aggregation 1
GUJ Gujranwala Aggregation 1
SKT Sialkot Aggregation 1
BWP Bahawalpur Aggregation 1
SGD Sargodha Tail-end 1
SAH Sahiwal Tail-end 1
DGK DG Khan Tail-end 1
LONG-HAUL ROUTES

The trunk segments.

LHE ↔ FSD
Lahore ↔ Faisalabad
Length
~120 km
RTT (p95)
1.2 ms
Capacity
100/400G
LHE ↔ GUJ
Lahore ↔ Gujranwala
Length
~96 km
RTT (p95)
1.1 ms
Capacity
100/400G
GUJ ↔ SKT
Gujranwala ↔ Sialkot
Length
~96 km
RTT (p95)
1.1 ms
Capacity
100/400G
GUJ ↔ ISB
Gujranwala ↔ Islamabad / Rawalpindi
Length
~148 km
RTT (p95)
1.3 ms
Capacity
100/400G
LHE ↔ ISB
Lahore ↔ Islamabad / Rawalpindi
Length
~170 km
RTT (p95)
1.4 ms
Capacity
100/400G
FSD ↔ SGD
Faisalabad ↔ Sargodha
Length
~96 km
RTT (p95)
1.1 ms
Capacity
100/400G
FSD ↔ MUL
Faisalabad ↔ Multan
Length
~150 km
RTT (p95)
1.3 ms
Capacity
100/400G
LHE ↔ SAH
Lahore ↔ Sahiwal
Length
~129 km
RTT (p95)
1.2 ms
Capacity
100/400G
SAH ↔ MUL
Sahiwal ↔ Multan
Length
~124 km
RTT (p95)
1.2 ms
Capacity
100/400G
MUL ↔ BWP
Multan ↔ Bahawalpur
Length
~109 km
RTT (p95)
1.1 ms
Capacity
100/400G
MUL ↔ DGK
Multan ↔ DG Khan
Length
~126 km
RTT (p95)
1.2 ms
Capacity
100/400G

RTT figures are p95 measured between PE devices on the route, last 90 days. Lengths are cable-route, not great-circle.

PEERING & FACILITIES

Where we land outside our own metal.

Public peering

PKIX (Pakistan Internet Exchange) — Karachi

10G + 100G ports
Private peering / NNI

Lahore Carrier MMR (LL-MMR-04)

100G LR
Private peering

Islamabad Carrier MMR (ISB-MMR-09)

10G / 100G
Inter-city via partner LDIs

Karachi Submarine Landing

Multi-carrier

Open peering policy at PKIX and at our Lahore / Islamabad MMRs. Settlement-free PNI is available for networks that meet our public peering policy on PeeringDB. Submarine reach is delivered via partner LDIs at Karachi landings.

ROUTING HYGIENE

What we drop, what we sign, what we publish.

RPKI invalids dropped

Inbound and outbound. We publish ROAs for every prefix we originate.

MANRS-aligned

Anti-spoofing at customer edge, prefix filtering against IRR + RPKI, coordination contacts in PeeringDB.

Looking glass

Public read-only at lg.vcloud.com.pk. show route, traceroute and ping from any of our PE devices.

GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN

RFC 8326 supported on all eBGP sessions. Signal pre-drains for planned maintenance.

Communities documented

Customer-facing communities for prepend, scope, blackhole and TE published in the welcome email.

IPv6 default

Every customer port comes up dual-stack. We don't price IPv6 separately.

Need a route, a ping window or a peering session?

Drop us the prefixes, the cities and the capacity. The same engineer who designs the route will be on the call when you scope it.