Return of CINX

The ISPA has re-launched CINX (the Cape Town Internet Exchange). PR here.

Nothing on the old CINX and why it was discontinued, except for a rather oblique statement that there is now has "more than enough Internet traffic to justify an exchange for the city".

No graphs for the exchange yet, but the TENET folks are on the ball and you can view their port graphs here. 10 Mbps in Cape Town doesn't seem like much compared to the 100 Mbps of JINX (which looks suspiciously flat, although there is a 175 Mbps spike in there).

Excellent news for local providers.

GEN2 to GEN3

Is UCT currently operating on both GEN2 and GEN3?

Compare GEN2 stats vs GEN3 stats:

The big view seems to indicate traffic starting sometime in Week 07, about Tuesday:


The uncommissioned orders page shows UCT's link to become active on 1st March, 2008. So maybe it's all testing traffic.

It's interesting to see the TENET-JINX graphs too:
Note that we're not seeing massive usage through JINX. This basically boils down to two costs as limiting factors:
1) The equivalent-line-charge
2) The ISPA category charge (small, medium, large)

Now TENET is an honorary ISPA member, so presumably doesn't have to pay the small [by comparison] R6100 pm. But there's an incredible step function in the Equivalent Line Charge going from R0 per month to R22k per month as you transgress 2 Mbps. So can we assume private peering in/near the JINX facility?