Step 5: The Connecting Process

After completing and submitting the AMS-IX Entry Form the following will happen:

1. You will be sent 2 copies of the AMS-IX Connection Agreement. Both of these copies must be signed and the appendices initialized by the contractual contact person (CCP), and then sent back to the following address before its expiration date:

   AMS-IX bv
   Westeinde 12
   1017 ZN AMSTERDAM
   The Netherlands
   

   Unsigned Connection Agreements expire two months after being drawn up.

   
   
2. At the same time your membership application form will be forwarded to the AMS-IX management for approval, this approximately takes a period of one working week.
   
   
3. Once the application is approved by the management and upon timely receipt of the signed Connection Agreement, you will receive a copy of the Connection Agreement which has now been countersigned by the Managing Director of AMS-IX bv. AMS-IX will start the process of assigning/configuring a port for you.
   
   
4. Taking into account your envisioned date of connection or within 3 working days your TCP will be contacted by our engineers with details of the port assignment. (Please inform info@ams-ix.net if the envisioned date of connection should be changed.) You will receive information regarding your port number, your IP number, FQDN and other matters of importance concerning your port configuration.
   
   
5. Note that you will be charged ten working days after the assignment date.
   
   
6. Your port will initially be placed in a Quarantine VLAN.

   At this time you are able to physically install/configure your router and other equipment at your chosen housing location(s). You should then contact your chosen housing location(s) with this information and ask them to finalise the cabling and verify Layer 1 connectivity.

   Once this is done you can contact the AMS-IX NOC during office hourse on +31 (20) 514 17 17 or noc@ams-ix.net (quoting your 'project number') and ask them to bring the interface into the appropriate production LAN. You are now live!!!
   
   

7. You are invited to set up peering with AMS-IX B.V. on AS1200, see the Peering with AS1200 page for more information.
   
   
8. At this stage you are also able to set up peering with other connected members. Look at the list of members page for details on their peering policies and contact details.