The Connecting Process

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

• Contract - You will be sent 2 copies of the CAR-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:

• Membership - At the same time your membership application form will be forwarded to the CAR-IX Board for approval, this approximately takes a period of one working week.

• Once the application is approved by the Board 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 CAR-IX bv. CAR-IX will start the process of assigning/configuring a port for you.

• 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@car-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. Note that you will be charged ten working days after the assignment date. Your port will initially be placed in a Quarantine VLAN.

• At this time you are able to physically configure your router and/or other equipment. You should then contact co-location ECP with this information and ask them to finalise the cabling and verify Layer 1 connectivity.

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

You are invited to set up peering with CAR-IX B.V. on AS28017 see the Peering with AS28017 page for more information.
At this stage you are also able to set up peering with other connected members. Look at the list of members for details on their peering policies and contact details.