How to join and use NetherLight

You can join NetherLight by connecting to this open exchange using one of the many connection technologies supported by NetherLight. Once connected to NetherLight, interconnections can be set up to every other NetherLight member.

How to prepare

Getting your fibre connections right

• The fibre connection for your connection has to terminate at NetherLight located at SARA, Science Park 121, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.       
• Your fibre connection must support one of these connection technologies.

How to join NetherLight

Getting connected to NetherLight

1. Check whether the parties to which you wish to connect, can be reached through NetherLight. NetherLight can assist you with this.
2. Review the NetherLight website to ensure that you understand the available facilities. 
3. Review the fees associated with the connection. The fees are minimal and simply help to cover the costs associated with the facility.
4. Determine the colocation facilities needed. If you need rack space for your equipment contact SARA Colocation Services about their facilities.
5. Send an email to aa@surfnet.nl  to indicate your intention to connect to NetherLight. 
6. SURFnet will contact you in order to make arrangements for an engineering review. The review will be conducted by your and NetherLight’s engineers, who will meet to discuss and coordinate the technical implementation of your connection to NetherLight.
7. SURFnet will send you the NetherLight Connection Agreement. You must sign this agreement before you can be connected to the NetherLight equipment.  
8. Sign and submit the Connection Agreement.

How to use NetherLight

Once the physical connection is in place ,you can request one or more interconnections to other connected parties. The interconnection is a connection within the NetherLight equipment that makes it possible to create an end-to-end circuit, VLAN or lambda (or combination) between the parties.

1. Once connected to NetherLight, send a request for an interconnection to admin@netherlight.net.
2. To build an interconnection between two or more connected parties, all parties involved will have to agree to the initiator’s interconnection request. 
3. Once all the circuits are in place, the NetherLight NOC will inform the connected parties that the interconnection can be set up.