Inherent Issues With The TIO
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) closed consultation for its 5-year independent review on 15 May. The consultation was primarily focused on its ability to meet the Australian ‘benchmarks for Industry Based Customer Dispute Resolution’, as well as other issues including its revised terms of reference, governance and authorising environment and engagement and outreach activities. In […]
IAASysters 2022
IAASysters 2022
Applications to become a sponsored attendee of the program have now closed.
Date: Tuesday 31 August – 2 September 2022
Location: Sofitel Melbourne
CommsDay Summit 2022 Recap
IAA was fortunate to attend and present at the CommsDay Summit 2022 held on 3-4 May 2022. Joined by then Federal Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher MP, and then Shadow Minister Michelle Rowland MP, industry engaged in an insightful and passionate discussion about the telecommunications industry. Amongst several other interesting topics, there were a […]
Catching up With Long-time Member, Aubrey Adams
In the spirit of celebration of WA-IX’s 25-year milestone, we’ve been catching up with founding and long-time members and this month; we’re sharing our catch up with Aubrey Adams. At the time of joining WAIA, Aubrey was teaching a technology management unit in the MIS Bachelor course at Edith Cowan University in Perth and was […]
Customer Identity Authentication – What you Need to Know
On 8 April 2022, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) introduced a new set of rules, the Telecommunications Service Provider (Customer Identity Authentication) Determination 2022. These new rules are intended to protect customers from identity fraud scams that occur over telecommunications networks, including unauthorised mobile porting and unauthorised SIM swap scams. The new […]
Meet the Member – Matthew Enger
This month’s meet the member segment features our wonderful Chair, Matthew Enger. Matt is the Managing Director of X Integration and Leaptel and joined IAA in 2016 as a relative newbie in the Internet industry. He joined after being told that this peering idea is a ‘good thing to do’ and looking for a way […]
What’s Happening With the Portal?
Work continues on the new portal! Over the past four weeks, we’ve implemented a number of features and updated the theme to make sure the new portal not only works well but looks great, too. Spoiler alert, we’ve added in a ‘tool’ menu so you can have fast access to the tools you need to […]
Same Year; Another Milestone!
Remember our announcement in March about our network cracking over 800Gbps? Well, two months on, and with many thanks to our newest content provider and the gaming community in Australia, our network hit a new record of 901Gbps on Wednesday, 11 May. From the moment the caches were live, the traffic started coming in fast, […]
New PKG Mirror Improves Content Access for FreeBSD Users
Earlier this month, we racked and stacked a new PKG mirror hosted on NSW-IX. The new mirror is the first of its kind here in Australia and will make a big difference for FreeBSD users in Southeast Asia and Oceania. FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms that focuses on features, […]