All equipment installed by FTNS operators are considered as transmission equipment and FTNS facilities. HKIX will not provide operational support on these facilities. ISPs who are interested to connect HKIX must directly approach HKIX for the membership application. HKIX will not accept FTNS operators on behalf of ISPs for all kinds of application. FTNS operators must allocate a physical node at HKIX for each customer, it can be an ethernet port on their equipment or pre-wired patch panel in the cabinet. No VLAN trunking or etherchannel will be supported between the customer node and HKIX switch. HKIX will directly deal with their customers for the peering issues. Similarly, their customers should notify HKIX-NOC their choice of connections to HKIX. IP address will be assigned to HKIX member's router, there should not be other non-hkix hop between this router and HKIX route server. FTNS operators should not alter their customer's router MAC address appears to the peering.