JINX (Johannesburg Internet Exchange), located at Johannesburg, South Africa, is an internet exchange point in South Africa. [1] It is run by INX-ZA, which is an autonomous arm of the Internet Service Providers Association. [2]
It started operating in 1996. The amount of traffic processed by the JINX has been steadily growing, and growth has been exponential in the second half of the 2000s (decade), [2] with, for example, 450 Mbps peak-hour load in 2008 [1] that almost doubled to 800 Mbit/s in early 2010. [3] In part the growth can be attributed to the open peering policy adopted by some of the larger participants, like TENET and MWEB and the large content base that is available from provider like Internet Solutions. When using JINX figures to extrapolate Internet usage stats in South Africa, bear in mind that a significant amount of traffic does not go through the public switch fabric, but is changed over private peering sessions. [4]
Most major South African Internet Service Providers have chosen to peer via JINX: some examples are Internet Solutions, Neotel, TENET, iBurst, Vox Telecom and MWEB. [2] Real time traffic statistics are available on the JINX Traffic Graphs.
In 2009, the ISPA restarted the exchange point in Cape Town, CINX, to complement JINX, and in September 2012, an exchange point in Durban, (DINX), [5] was started.
The IP address block for JINX is 196.223.14.X/24, and 2001:43f8:1f0::/48. [6]
In 2012, the ISPA appointed Nishal Goburdhan as the full-time manager of the Internet Exchange points in South Africa. [7]
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South Africa, Johannesburg