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Fees for ISPs

The service of interconnection to MIX public peering LAN, referred to as "basic service", is subject to the fees hereinafter described.
In addition, for those ISPs already connected to MIX, a number of "additional services", quoted separately, are available.

The basic service fees include:

  • connection to MIX switches port(s): the ports number and type depend on the nominal bandwidth declared by the ISP;

  • 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6 addresses for the interface(s) connected to the MIX peering LAN;

  • 1/3 of standard 19'' rack supplied and precabled by MIX for ISPs peering equipment (if installed inside the MIX data center);
  • rack supply for optical boxes installation supplied and precabled by MIX (if peering equipment are installed outside the MIX data center) ;
  • out-of-band access to ISP devices for remote management provided by MIX ;
  • 2 power plugs (220 V) on redundant power supply bars
  • redundant power supply as described in the document "Security systems" [Ref. MIX-303];
  • first level assistance for failure management and devices installation;
  • H24 access to MIX data center as described by art. 10.2.2 and 10.3.2 of the "Memorandum of understanding"

The basic service also includes the following accessory services

  • direct peering with "i.root-servers.net" replica;
  • direct peering with "k.root-servers.net" replica;
  • direct advertisement of secondary ccTLDs name-servers hosted at MIX;
  • subscription to the technical mailing list of MIX customers;
  • subscription to the MIX customers list with the associated nominal bandwidth;
  • addition to the MIX customers list in the Euro-IX database;
  • access to MIX members area.

The annual fee does not include connection costs between peering routers and ISPs backbones.

In case an ISP needs additional and/or different resources from the ones included in the basic service, these resources will be quoted separately.

 

Fees for the basic service
  • an annual membership fee of €. 850,00 (reduced to €. 425,00 for the first year if the member joins after July 1st ) for members who joining after January 1st 2006 or have been connected to MIX for more than 10 years;

  • an annual fee, based on the value of the nominal bandwidth(NB) declared by each ISP, calculated as follows:

Examples:

NB=8Mb        annual fee = c1*8
NB=100Mb     annual fee = c1*16 + c2* (100-16)

The coefficient values are the following:

C1= Euro 250,00
C2= Euro 70,00
C3= Euro 7,00
C4= Euro 0,80

The Nominal Bandwidth / Fees table is the following:

Range

Nominal Bandwidth Mbits

Annual Fee

Euro

Resources included with the fee: 1/3 rack +

Small

4

1.000

1 port 10/100 TX

6

1.500

1 port 10/100 TX

8

2.000

1 port 10/100 TX

10

2.500

1 port 10/100 TX

12

3.000

1 port 10/100 TX

14

3.500

1 port 10/100 TX

16

4.000

1 port 10/100 TX


Range

Nominal Bandwidth Mbits

Annual Fee

Euro

Resources included with the fee: 1/3 rack +

Medium

20

4.280

1 port 10/100 TX

25

4.630

1 port 10/100 TX

30

4.980

1 port 10/100 TX

34

5.260

1 port 10/100 TX

40

5.680

1 port 10/100 TX

45

6.030

1 port 10/100 TX

50

6.380

1 port 10/100 TX

55

6.730

1 port 10/100 TX

60

7.080

1 port 10/100 TX

68

7.640

1 port 10/100 TX

80

8.480

1 port 10/100 TX

90

9.180

1 port 10/100 TX

100

9.880

2 ports 10/100 TX

or

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

120

11.280

2 ports 10/100 TX

or

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

140

12.680

2 ports 10/100 TX

or

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

155

13.730

2 ports 10/100 TX

or

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH


Range

Nominal Bandwidth Mbits

Annual Fee

Euro

Resources included with the fee: 1/3 rack +

Large

200

14.045

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

310

14.815

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

400

15.445

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

620

16.985

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

1000

19.645

1 port 1000 LX/SX/LH

2000

26.645

2 ports 1000 LX/SX/LH


Range

Nominal Bandwidth Mbits

Annual Fee

Euro

Resources included with the fee: 1/3 rack +

Extra Large

3000

27.445

1 port 10GE LR/SR

4000

28.245

1 port 10GE LR/SR

5000

29.045

1 port 10GE LR/SR

10000

33.045

1 port 10GE LR/SR

 

The Nominal Bandwidth

The Nominal Bandwidth is the amount of bandwidth that an ISP needs for the peering traffic on the MIX LAN.

Values of "nominal bandwidth" are to be intended as "up to": for instance, 15Mb of usage are associated to 16Mb of nominal bandwidth.

The nominal bandwidth must not be greater than the geographical circuit speed used for WAN connection to the MIX and represents the only value that can be published  (by MIX and by the ISP) as the connection speed between MIX and the ISP.

The nominal bandwidth is declared by the ISP upon connection to MIX and can be upgraded during the contract period depending on the actual bandwidth usage, as described in "The balance procedure"; downgrade is allowed only on renewal.

The balance procedure

MIX uses monitoring tools for each interface connected to its LAN (each ISP can see its own graphics as well as graphics of all other members using the correct password to access the members area).

Every month the monitoring system data is processed through the algorithm described below:

  • if the actual bandwidth usage is less or equal to the nominal bandwidth, there are no actions;

  • if the actual bandwidth usage is greater than the nominal bandwidth:

  • after the first month MIX sends a warning e-mail to the technical contacts;
  • after the second month, if the usage is still greater, MIX sends the administrative contacts an invoice for the difference;
  • if during the second month the usage drops below the declared limits, the process starts from zero;
  • if at the end of the third month the ISP has not paid the invoice, MIX will set a rate limit on the ISP switch port equal to the nominal bandwidth value, and will send an e-mail to both the technical and administrative contacts.

    Note: the third month is the deadline for making payment but, even if during this month the usage falls back to the nominal value, from at administrative point of view what has been calculated at the end of the second month must be taken into consideration.

     Each ISP, of course, based on its own needs, can request an upgrade of the nominal bandwidth without waiting for the MIX balance procedure.

    Please remember that for downgrading the nominal value, you have to wait for contract renewal.


Description of the algorithm for the bandwidth usage calculation

The considered values are those produced by the monitoring tool used by the MIX for checking the connection circuits state and usage on its own LAN.

The monitoring tool is, today one of the most popular public domain software for this purpose.

MRTG gets monitored interfaces counters values and stores them into log files, particularly the values of the couple (Max IN, Max OUT).

Every 5 minutes the maximum values of the counters, extracted every minute inside the range, are calculated; these values are stored in a log file (one for each interface) closed every 24 hours: in this way it’s possible to make a daily analysis of the bandwidth usage with a 5 minutes granularity.

The algorithm extracts the couples (Max IN, Max OUT) from the daily log file  and sorts them in two decreasing arrays; the first 10% is cut off from each array and the remaining higher value is stored in the monthly historical file related to that organization.

At 00:01 of the 1st day of the following month, the historical file is closed and sorted in two decreasing arrays (IN and OUT); again, the first 10% is cut off from each array and the maximum value between  the remaining maximum inputs and outputs is extracted: this value is the value considered as the bandwidth usage for that month.

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