Participants should be one of the followings:
- Internet Access / Services providers (IAPs or ISPs), Telecommunication Services providers etc. with proper licenses to operate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Local or International Research, Education or Academic Networks.
- International network services providers and Internet exchanges.
- Participants should have primary global Internet connectivity independent of IXSA facilities.
- Participants should be able to exchange routing tables (or peer) with the route server set up by IXSA using Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4).
- In addition to running BGP4 to peer with IXSA route server, participants need to run BGP4 to peer with their upstream/peer/downstream providers. This is for better management of routing. (AS numbers need to be obtained from APNIC or others. If they are single-homed, their upstream providers need only send a BGP default route to them).
- Participants must be self-sufficient. For example, they should have their own primary DNS, Email, WWW and News servers.
- The connections of participants to IXSA must be at Ethernet Fiber (Single/Multimode LC).
- The data links to IXSA and the routers located at the data center MUST be provided by the participants.
