Important note: There are only a limited number of fibre ports available on the current CINX switch, and all of the available
ports are current in use or reserved. Additional fibre ports will be available as soon as new switches are installed at CINX.
Questions relating to the INX policy, accounts, membership, eligibility to connect to the INX and other general issues should be addressed to the ISPA secretariat:
Questions relating to the hosting facilities for CINX should be addressed to Internet Solutions:
On-site support numbers for CINX (office hours)
(subject: CINX IDC access on YYYY-MM-DD)Note that this is the contact details for IS Global Service Center (GSC) that operates on a 24×7 basis.
For after-hour support, the GSC can still be contacted.
Also, read the cabling section to guide you on the process if you are currently not an IS customer.
As per ISPA regulations, the cabling in and to the IX environment is the responsibility of the host. Please do not arrange for cabling directly to the IX, rather work through the host.
If the ISPA member is already an IS client, they can work through their account manager or if they are not a customer, they can contact hostingsolutions@is.co.za to initiate the cabling process.
The physical address for CINX is:
IDC 4
6th Floor, IS Cape Town
The Terraces
34 Bree street
Cape Town
All Martis circuits into CINX should be terminated on node 2828.
The local STM-1 node contact is 
The IP address block for CINX is: 198.32.214.X/24
Questions about the allocation of addresses for the INXes should be addressed to
The INX host is responsible for the maintenance of the switches at each INX. Requests for switch configuration changes should be sent to 
Traffic graphs for CINX are available at
http://stats.jinx.net.za/cinx/index.php