The Durban Internet Exchange was started in September 2012, and currently operates across two data centres in the Ethekwini Metropolitan Area.

Physical locations

The physical address for DINX (RiverHorse Valley) is:

Teraco DB1
River Horse Valley
Newlands East
Durban


and the physical address for DINX (Umhlanga) is:

IS Umhlanga

East Coast Radio House
Second Floor
314/7 Umhlanga Rocks Drive,
Gateway,
Umhlanga Rocks
Durban

 

There is a protected 1Gb/s link between the locations, allowing peers at either of the locations to be able to peer with peers at either locations.  

IP address allocation

The IPv4/IPv6 address blocks for JINX are:

DATA vlan: 196.223.30.x/24 and 2001:43f8:01f2:0::x:/64
VOIP vlan: 196.223.31.x/24 and 2001:43f8:01f2:1::x:/64

where X is assigned on application for a port.