2022 End of Year Member Event – Perth
End of Year Member Event – Perth
Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Time: 5:45pm AWST – boarding commences, 6:00pm – 9:00pm AWST – Cruise
Location: Depart from and return to Barrack Street Jetty, Elizabeth Quay, Barrack Street and Riverside Drive, Perth, WA, 6000
2022 End of Year Member Event – Brisbane
End of Year Member Event – Brisbane
Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm AEST
Location: Pig ‘N’ Whistle Riverside, Riverside Centre, 123 Eagle Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001
INTERNET ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES NEW 400GBPS PLATFORM
The Internet Association of Australia (IAA), the operator of IX Australia, has announced today plans to upgrade its NSW internet exchange point NSW-IX to a 400Gbps core using Arista switching equipment. Like most internet platforms, the pandemic has seen IAA’s NSW-IX doubling its traffic levels over the last two years. IAA has determined that in […]
From the CEO’s Desk
After all the effort the team has put in, we are just bursting to launch our new portal. As with any software project, there is more we want to do, but the critical piece has just been to turn it into a robust system on a platform that is modular, extensible and – yes – […]
ZPE Completes IAA Case Study
Some of you may remember from our newsletter articles and social media posts that we worked with ZPE to upgrade our Out of Band network (OOB), by installing 35 Nodegrid Gate Services Routers and two Net Service Routers. ZPE wrote a case study on our OOB project: Reliable Internet Exchange Infrastructure: Building a Sustainable IXP […]
August’s Advocacy Corner Update
The Public Policy team has continued to be busy this past month. From participating in a panel on Lawful Interception to attending an industry forum on the revised Special Access Undertaking from NBN Co, while also keeping on top of the various consultations that are currently underway. Shortly after the IAA event regarding Open LI, […]
Google Private Network Interconnect
We are in the process of activating a new Google Private Network Interconnect (PNI) in Melbourne. Activating the PNI will allow us to fill our Google caches from Google’s cloud location in Melbourne rather than carrying it all the way from Sydney. Our Google caches in Melbourne ingest as much as 5 Gbps of fill […]
Hardware has Arrived; Feels like Christmas!
With a planned route server refresh to keep up with the growing traffic across our network, we’re happy to report that we’ve just received some of our new hardware. Plans are now underway to run up and deploy them across each IX. Stay tuned for further updates in our newsletter and on our social media […]
NSW-IX 400G Backbone
Due to the growing demand for network capacity, we’re in the process of procuring hardware and planning the implementation of a 400Gbps backbone ring across Sydney. Backed by the Arista 7280DR3 series platform, this expanded backbone will ensure that our network has capacity to meet existing and future demand for our services across NSW-IX. The […]