(3) In the case, one RINEX member is already providing transit to another RINEX member, the exchange of regional routes mentioned in (ii) above, may also happen using a separate private connection between the ISPs. (4) ISPs shall announce only those routes that belong to their AS, i.e their own network, and their customer routes at the RINEX. An ISP in any region can aggregate traffic from other ISPs in the region and connect to the RINEX through a single connection. (5) The RINEX router shall only exchange information but not carry any transit traffic. (6) All RINEX members must ensure that they suitably and proactively upgrade capacity from time-to-time so that they do not end up dropping traffic that other peers are exchanging with them. (7) The routing policy here also applies to "large" content providers to directly peer at any of the RINEX nodes. They will be treated like stand-alone Data Centers. For this they need to adhere to the following criteria: a. They must have their own AS number b. The content hosted by them should be in accordance with Rwandan laws (i.e they should not be hosting obscene content or promoting gambling or anti-national content, or any other content that violates either the ISP license condition or any other Rwandan Law) 2.4 Quality of Services (1) All critical components of RINEX should be up for 99.00 % of time in a quarter. These critical components are RINEX routers/Switches, interface module on which the links of the ISPs are terminated and any other equipment which affects the RINEX traffic. Non critical faults which do not affect RINEX traffic like failure of one power supply module should be rectified by RINEX within 48 hours. (2) Switching Architecture of RINEX shall be non-blocking, so that it does not introduce any delay. (3) Uninterrupted power shall be ensured to the equipment of the ISP and RINEX router itself in the RINEX node. Power availability can be 99.00% in a quarter. (4) RINEX shall ensure proper environment (Proper Air conditioning with Humidity control) for housing equipments of RINEX and its member ISPs (5) Augmentation of ISPs Bandwidth to RINEX: - ISP shall augment its bandwidth to RINEX, if the utilization of the existing link exceeds 80% of the capacity for 4 hrs in a day and for 7 days. Such capacity management shall be through increase of capacity and not through reduction routes announced. The augmentation should normally be completed within a period of one month after RINEX reported to the concerned ISP. This time should be extendable RINEX GUIDELINES 2009 Page 6