Internet Service Providers' Association

Howto become a JINX participant

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Connecting to the INXes

In order to connect to JINX, you must have been a member of ISPA for at least one month. Membership of ISPA is open to any Internet service provider in Southern Africa. All members of ISPA may connect to JINX with medium-sized members being restricted to connections of up to 512 kbps at JINX and small members being restricted to connections of up to 128 kbps.

Details of membership fees and other costs associated with JINX are provided here.

ISPs outside of South Africa but within Southern Africa may join ISPA as non-voting international members. They have the same access to the INXes and pay the same fees as other members of their size.

Most importantly you must familiarise yourself with the fee structure for JINX which is available here.

Overview of the application process

Setup requirements are essentially as follows:

1. Apply for a Telkom line (or let know if you're connecting via some other means).
2. Request that an IP address be allocated to you, using the instructions here.
3. Arrange to be added to the list of people permitted to access JINX. Refer to the Access Procedures bit of this page.
4. Let IS know when you'll be arriving at JINX, using the step-by-step guide on the same page (here)
5. Take your router to JINX. There is some information on the type of router you'll need on the JINX FAQ page here.
6. Use the links to the individual companies on the left-hand side of the JINX pages (menu system, bottom half) to find out what the other ISPA members' policies are for arranging interconnection. It can often be useful to do this step in parallel to the above steps, because some peering partners may require contracts to be signed or peering/transit charges to be negotiated.
7. Let the ISPA webmaster know what your interconnection policy is, as well as the other information listed on the site for each JINX participant. (template here)
8. Notify once you are live. If you need to upgrade your membership category (depending on what sort of connection you want to install), we'll do that automatically from the month after your connection goes live.