Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller
Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger
Internet. Technically, it consists of two bundled services:
- The advertisement of customer routes to other ISPs, thereby soliciting inbound traffic toward the customer from them
- The advertisement of other ISPs' routes (usually but not necessarily in the form of a default route or a full set of routes to all of the destinations on the Internet) to the ISP's customer, thereby soliciting outbound traffic from the customer towards these networks.