Official Launch Date set!
It’s official, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 9:00am AEST / 7:00am AWST is the launch date for phase one of the new IAA Member Portal. After more than 18 months of planning, designing, coding and testing, the new portal will be rolled out across three phases, with each phase containing new and upgraded features. Emails […]
New Technical Guide Page
We’ve given our Services webpage a bit of a work over and given our technical peering information a page of its own. Thanks to member feedback, we have launched a new and improved Technical Guide on our website. This new page includes information on IX technical etiquette, allowed traffic types, BGP communities for controlling prefix […]
Route Server Refresh
We are preparing to refresh our existing fleet of route server hardware. The new servers will use 2 x 10G-LR fibre links to diverse switches in a Layer 2 bonded configuration for improved resilience against planned and unplanned network outages. We look forward to giving you more information on the upcoming works, so stay tuned […]
OOB – Up and Running!
IX Australia’s new out-of-band (OOB) network has officially been commissioned and is now being used in production! Powered by ZPE’s NodeGrid devices and utilising state-of-the-art technologies such as WireGuard VPNs, this solution replaces the original OOB network that was running on end-of-life equipment. The new solution (high-level overview shown below) includes three redundant head-ends with […]
From the CEO’s Desk
Well, here we are entering into a new financial year already. The team have been hard at work completing a few projects from last year, as well as the final phases of testing on our new member portal! It all looks so elegant and simple, it’s hard to see the huge amounts of effort that […]
Lawful Intercept on the Cheap
Lawful Intercept on the Cheap
Date: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm AEST / 11:00am – 12:00pm AWST
Location: Online via Zoom
Lawful Intercept on the Cheap – SAVE THE DATE
How do ISPs meet their lawful intercept obligations? In this online session we will hear from Richard Nelson, Shane Alcock (Uni of Waikato) and Dave Mill (Searchlight), as well as IAA’s Sophia Joo, where they will explore the requirements of lawful intercept within the Australian context and demonstrate an open source approach to meeting your […]
Welcome, Kyle!
We are excited to introduce Kyle Zrinski, our new PHP Developer. Working with the tech team, he will be a vital contributor to our new IAA Member Portal. Before joining IAA, Kyle worked as a Desktop IT Support Technician and is currently completing a degree in Information Technology at ECU. Kyle brings a real passion […]
Meet the Member – Brett O’Hara
This month’s Meet the Member segment features our wonderful Deputy Chair, Brett O’Hara, who is employed as a Senior Network Engineer at Vocus in the Platform Engineering Group. Brett joined IAA in 2019 after attending IAA events as a guest of a Corporate member to meet and network with people in the industry. Brett’s interest […]