Fees

Service activation can be requested by means of the following form

Every Member has to contribute to NaMeX Consortium with an annual fee, which is used for the operational and capital expenses of the Consortium. By Charter, the Consortium is not for profit: all the fees are hence used for the expenses, and gains cannot be redistributed among members.

Following an agreement with the association ANFoV, its members will receive a 1000 Euro discount (on an annual basis) on the total amount of the fee.

Peering services

Recurring costs for the connection to the switching platform are based on the number and type of switchports requested(*):

Switchport Primary port Backup port Additional port
FE / 100 MbpsEUR 2.500freeEUR 1.000
GbE / 1000 MbpsEUR 8.000freeEUR 1.000
10GBE / 10 GbpsEUR 18.000free[upon request]

(*) costs do not include housing for router devices, see shared rack (SR) under carrier services for information on housing costs.

Setup fees and additional charges

Additional fees are required upon request for the activation of private peering services:

  • Private VLANs: setup costs EUR 200 for each party associated with the VLAN, no yearly fees are required
  • Transit VLANs: setup costs EUR 200 for each party associated with the VLAN, a yearly recurring fee of EUR 200 is required from the party taking the role of initiator of the VLAN;
  • back-to-back: setup costs EUR 200 for each party involved.

Carrier services

Costs for interconnection services are organized in bundles, each bundle comprises an amount of rack space and maximum allowed power consumption (including cooling power):

Service package Description Yearly fee
SRShared rack / peering only (5RU, max 2 devices, 250W+250W)EUR 1.200
QRQuarter rack / carrier (10RU, 250W+250W)EUR 4.500
HRHalf rack / carrier (20RU, 500W+500W)EUR 7.000
FRFull rack / carrier (40RU, 1kW+1kW)EUR 12.000
FPFootprint 60x60 / carrier (1kW+1kW)EUR 10.000

Setup fees and additional charges

With the activation of a new rack space, requesting member will be charged a one-time fee for the installation of cabling systems connecting the rack with the shared interconnection infrastructure (meet-me room): standard cablings for a 10RU space include 3 SM fiber pairs, 3 MM fiber pairs and 6 UTP ports.

Any additional request regarding cabling, power (additional power or dedicated lines) and any other item not concerned with in the standard offer will be subject to quotation.

AMS-IX connection services

Connecting to AMS-IX requires an additional port on NaMeX switching platform, that is charged a monthly recurring fee proportional to required capacity:

Capacity YRC
250 MbpsEUR 5.040
1 GbpsEUR 12.000

Remote hands support

Remote hands operations are charged according to required effort and type of request (see service description for details).

Type of support Request (including 1st hour) Additional hours
Ordinary, scheduledEUR 15050 EUR/h
Ordinary, unscheduledEUR 30050 EUR/h
Extraordinary, scheduledEUR 500150 EUR/h
Extraordinary, unscheduledEUR 750250 EUR/h