From the CEO’s desk – August 2025

So here we are into the new financial year, and it’s out with the old and in with the new. We’ve got fantastic new content services being switched on shortly, with Microsoft caches coming online across the country; we’ve issued end of sale notices for 1Gbps ports at several locations, flagged the closure of Host […]

Microsoft Connected Caches are going live!

We’re expanding our CDN offering! Next Tuesday, 12 August 2025, Microsoft Connected Caches (MCC) are going live on our exchanges in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth via AS10084. This will bring Microsoft content such as OS updates, games, applications, and static assets even closer to your users. MCC delivers content not available via AS8075. During […]

QV1 is gone

WA-IX’s first ever PoP in QV1 is no more. IAA has left the building. In March this year, our longest-running Point of Presence and the birthplace of the commercial internet in WA, was decommissioned. Closing a legacy site is never easy, and QV1 didn’t go quietly. The final tidy-up was a mammoth task and a […]

IAA AGM 2025 – Save the date

Attention IAA Members! Please save the date for IAA’s Annual General Meeting Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025 Time:Perth 10:30am AWSTDarwin 12:00pm ACSTBrisbane 12:30pm AESTAdelaide 1:00pm ACDTSydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart 1:30pm AEDT Location: Via Zoom We will share the official notifications, nominations, reports, and registrations soon. We hope you can join us!

IAA End of Year Events 2025

Registrations are now open for our End of Year Events 2025! We’re wrapping up the year with something a little different: a bowling Tournament of Peers. Held across Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, which exchange will knock down the competition to become IAA’s bowling champions? We invite you to an evening of tenpin bowling, […]

IAA Convergent 2025 – Celebrating 30 Years of Peers!

This year’s IAA Convergent series has taken us across the country, raising a glass to 30 Years of Peers with our incredible community. Since our last newsletter, we’ve shared gin and ping pong in Adelaide, toured a rum distillery in Sydney, sipped whisky under chandeliers in Brisbane, and indulged in bacon/whisky pairings in Perth. Each […]

IAASysters – Onwards to Melbourne

Now, we’re turning our thoughts to Melbourne, and once again we’ve been blown away by the calibre of applicants. We look forward to seeing this year’s successful participants in September! Interested in sponsoring this powerful initiative? Learn more! Shout out to our current sponsors, who help make this event possible:

IAA’s CEO, Narelle Clark, wins CommsDay Award

In case you missed it, Narelle Clark was recently inducted into the CommsDay Hall of Fame during a special ceremony at the CommsDay Summit, held in Sydney this June. Surrounded by industry peers in the grand ballroom of the historic Fullerton Hotel, Narelle was recognised for her outstanding contributions to Australia’s internet and telecommunications sector. […]

Advocacy Corner: May – August 2025

Parliament has resumed following the recent federal election, and we hold our breath for what the returning government has in store for the telco sector. Consultations have already started to ramp up again after a brief lull during the caretaker period. We are hopeful that ambitious reforms being undertaken by the Treasury into Australia’s overall […]