The joining fee is paid one-off in advance of connection by all members.

The membership fee is payable by all members quarterly and your first payment is invoiced pro-rata.

The port fee are invoiced monthly to members depending on port speed. *'nwap' refers to the IXPN Wireless Access Point. Members can connect to any of the currently operating IXPN locations wirelessly through the IXPN wireless access points operating on 5.2GHz.

Your first invoice will include the joining fee, membership fee (pro-rata) and the port fee (pro-rata).

For example if you join on 8 September 2006 and would be connecting at 100M, your first invoice would be for:
Joining Fee = N130,000
Membership Fee - (23 days / 92 days) x N65,000 = N16,250
Port Fee - (23 days / 30 days) x N19,000 = N14,566.67

TOTAL = N160,816.67

and would cover your membership fee until 30 September 2006.

Aggregated (trunked) 100M & 1G ports are not currently being offered.

There are two peering LANs for the IXPN. The primary peering LAN is on a 1G transmission between the three currently operating sites while the second peering LAN is on a 450M transmission between the sites.

Each additional port is charged at the same rate as the first except:

if a member intends to take a second port on the second peering LAN if they have a single port on the primary peering LAN.

A member's second 100M is free of port charge, but a member's second 1G port has a 25% discount on port charge and is therefore N39,000 per month. These discounts are offered to encourage members to take ports on both the IXPN peering LANs.

For avoidance of doubt, you can send an email to applyhelp@nixp.net for any membership or application enquiries.

Port Congestion

Members should be aware of their own utilisation, if the average measured traffic on a member's port exceeds 80% of its capacity, a  Port Congestion Charge equal to the Basic Port Charge for that type of port shall be payable in addition to all other port fees. IXPN will provide real time usage graphs provided for member ports.