JINX cracks 2 Gbps
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) currently operates two Internet exchange points – the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX). A third exchange – the Durban Internet Exchange (DINX) – is also in the pipeline.
The ISPA run peering points have become much more active over the last two years, partly because of companies such as Google establishing a local presence and making available their content through peering partnerships at JINX and CINX.
MWEB further fuelled the peering fire when it severed its paid transit links, forcing other service providers to either peer with them directly or route traffic internationally to share traffic between the two networks.
In May this year MyBroadband reported that JINX and CINX had seen significant traffic and that JINX exceeded the 1 Gbps traffic mark while CINX peaked at close to 250 Mbps.
Only six months later and both JINX and CINX have doubled their traffic. According to the latest ISPA Internet Exchange statistics, over 2 Gbps of traffic is exchanged at JINX during peak times while CINX peaks at over 500 Mbps.
To cope with demand JINX recently had to start using capacity in the Parklands building Internet Solutions (IS) data centre after the traditional IS data centre used for JINX (situated in 158 Jan Smuts in Rosebank) ran out of capacity.
The success of local peering bodes well for the South African Internet community – not only in terms of lowering local bandwidth prices but alsoin terms of increasing service levels to broadband users.
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