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Title: JINX


1
JINX
  • Abuja, April 2007
  • William Stucke
  • ISPA (SA) ManCom Member
  • AfrISPA Chairman

2
ISPA, South Africa
  • Association formed in June 1996, primarily to
    combat the incumbents attempt to monopolise IP
  • 129 Members
  • Large 14
  • Medium 6
  • Small 99
  • Affiliate 6
  • Honorary 4
  • Growing rapidly 7 new members so far this year
  • Members include 3½ out of 7 licensed network
    operators - Telcos

3
JINX
  • Johannesburg Internet Exchange
  • Formed in December 1996
  • Currently some 18 peers through the JINX switch
    fabric, and 5 private peering arrangements
    around JINX
  • An artefact of JINXs Equivalent Line Charge
    philosophy which in turn is an artefact of high
    Telkom charges

4
Traffic Exchanged
  • About 95 Mbps through the exchange
  • Over 1 Gbps through private peering links, at
    JINX and directly
  • See http//stats.jinx.net.za/

5
Site Neutrality versus Hardened facility
  • A hardened facility is very important!
  • Initially, JINX was hosted by an ISP (IS). This
    was perceived as giving IS an unfair advantage.
    Equivalent Line Charges were deemed insufficient
    compensation
  • Moved to an independent location, managed by
    ISPA, in the same building.
  • Failures of equipment and of those contracted
    to maintain it - caused a change of strategy. Put
    hosting out to tender. IS won tender for JINX,
    UUNET won tender for CINX
  • JINX now hosted by IS, again. IS pays all
    management costs, and Equivalent Line Charges!
  • CINX defunct lack of interest in moving to the
    new location

6
Regulatory Issues
  • No direct regulatory issues w.r.t. JINX. No
    problem in running an IXP in RSA (c.f. Kenya)
  • However, Telkoms continuing de facto monopoly on
    carrier services is a major issue
  • Costs of exchanging local traffic via JINX is not
    much better than the (very high) costs of
    international transit
  • As soon as an alternative carrier service is
    available (August?), we expect to see significant
    changes -
  • Lower costs
  • More peers
  • More direct traffic
  • Finally get rid of Equivalent Line Charges
  • Huge issues regarding fair competition and
    bundling

7
Connectivity to JINX
  • Only two choices at present -
  • Diginet (lt 2 Mbps) or ATM (lt 140 Mbps) from
    Telkom
  • Fibre or UTP from a nearby hosting facility
  • Fibre is currently being strung from lampposts
    outside 155 Jan Smuts Avenue. No one has yet
    admitted to owning it!
  • RSA is currently in the process of changing from
    the old Telecommunications Act (heavily favouring
    Telkom) to the new Electronic Communications Act,
    which will open up the market significantly.
  • Dependent on the regulator, ICASA, to develop and
    publish regulations, convert existing licenses,
    and issue new licenses.
  • A slow process

8
Cost of connecting to JINX
  • No additional monthly fee, over ISPA membership
    fees (including VAT) -
  • Large 1,000 per month
  • Medium 245 per month
  • Small 60 per month (or 550 pa)
  • JINX joining fee (to pay for past / future
    capital expenditure on equipment) depending on
    size.
  • Large 4,000
  • Medium 1,600
  • Small 400
  • Payable over 10 months

9
Available facilities
  • Three 19 Racks
  • Telkom Martis Node (for Diginet connections)
  • Filtered UPS power
  • Generator backup (3 x 30 MVA?)
  • Air Conditioning
  • Security access control, physical cage and
    remotely operated cameras
  • 24 hour on-site staff
  • I F Root Servers
  • Looking Glass
  • MRTG graphs
  • Access to Akamai Server (via a member at JINX)

10
Critical Vendor Issues
  • None?
  • Members use whatever routers they choose (not a
    PC)
  • Switch fabric provided by a pair of dual
    redundant Cisco switches
  • Problems in the past with insufficient backplane
    capacity
  • Expect to need to upgrade soon, especially if
    VoIP interchange takes off. Only 2 GbE ports
    available

11
Who can Peer at JINX?
  • Any Large, Medium, Small or Honorary ISPA member
  • To qualify, the member must be -
  • An Access Provider (including VoIP),
  • Server Hosting provider, or
  • A Critical Infrastructure Provider
  • Sizes can peer at different speeds -
  • Large Unlimited
  • Medium lt 512 kbps
  • Small lt 128 kbps

12
Active IXP Association?
  • No separate association for the IXP
  • A VERY active ISPA
  • Management Committee
  • Joint Chairs
  • Seven members
  • Twelve Working Groups to manage various issues.
    Most are open to all members. WGs include -
  • Fair Competition (Legal issues, including 3 cases
    currently before the Competition Commission /
    Tribunal)
  • Submissions (Regulatory issues)
  • PR
  • Membership
  • Events (Annual free iWeek conference in
    September)
  • Operator Liaison (Telkom, MCTSs, Metro networks)
  • JINX
  • Code of Conduct
  • Research Reports bought at a discounted rate and
    supplied free to all members
  • Two Legal Advisors and a PR firm retained

13
Thank you
  • William_at_zanet.co.za
  • www.ispa.org.za
  • www.afrispa.org
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