Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an annual event to promote and raise awareness of the importance of protecting personal information led by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in partnership with state and territory privacy regulators and Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities.
April’s Advocacy Corner Update
Completed Submissions Telecommunications Sector Security Instruments | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications | 29 March 2022 The DITRIC has drafted new conditions and rules for carriers and CSPs to apply equivalent security measures for the telecommunications sector to those under the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Act 2021 which is currently in […]
From the CEO’s Desk
After much speculation about the date, the election has finally been called and we are now in the longest election campaign for decades. While the media sit watching for gaffes and hunting for the most embarrassing candidate, the rest of us are left wondering whether we will see any real policy scrutiny. If a change […]
UTS Researcher Seeks Participants for Study into Industry Engagement in Co-regulatory Rule-making
Dr Karen Lee, Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Law, is undertaking research into the ways in which service providers engage when codes of practice are drafted; and why industry participants choose to engage or disengage in code development. Using the development of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (C628: 2019) as a case study, […]
Catching up With Founding Member, Diego
Last month, one of our staff members caught up with Diego Campagna – a founding member of WAIA who owned and operated Global Data Access Pty Ltd from 1994-1997 – one of Perth’s early Internet Service Providers (ISP). The company quickly expanded to Kalgoorlie, Karratha and Port Hedland and eventually merged with Starwon Internet. As […]
Next Generation Members Portal
We are excited to announce that in a few months’ time, we will be launching our brand new member portal! This portal is designed to enhance the user experience by being easy and intuitive. We will do our best to keep you up to date with what’s happening, so keep an eye on our newsletter […]
AusNOG 2021
What a great couple of days of learning, knowledge sharing and networking! With session topics ranging from RPKI to DDoS to regulation, the conference had something for everyone. Narelle’s session – Regulation, Schmegulation – began with the changing digital landscape and focused on four regulatory themes: security, privacy and data rights, NBN and online safety. […]
Welcome, Matthew!
We are pleased to welcome Matthew Kobayashi, our newest Peering Engineer. Working with the tech team, he will be responsible for taking care of our network and assisting members with their technical enquiries. Matthew has a career that consists of various roles within the telecommunications and networking sectors, including working for Optus, Superloop and Megaport. […]
Testing, Testing – is the Arista Working?
Our engineers have been busy testing a new Arista 400Gbps switch with the preliminary results looking promising. If testing is successful, this new switch may be installed into our NSW-IX ring to increase capacity, and eventually make its way to our other IXes. Last month, you would have read about our 800Gbps milestone, and with […]