February’s Advocacy Corner Update
Completed Submissions We’ve had a busy month in February, responding to four consultations, three of which were for the Minister of Home Affairs! Draft Rules Register of Critical Infrastructure & Mandatory Reporting Scheme | 1 February 2022 These Draft Rules would introduce additional security obligations for select industry members who are deemed as critical infrastructure […]
From the CEO’s Desk
A big thank you to all those members who responded to our survey on where our next IX should go. The survey is still open, and we are still keen to hear from you. We’re seeing good growth across all the exchanges, so it is definitely time to expand the footprint some more. Even if […]
Recent Submissions – December 2021 and January 2022
The ACCC will extend the expiry date of the wholesale ADSL (WADSL) service until 30 June 2024. IAA commented on this consultation in September 2021. We advocated for the WADSL to be extended as it is still used in regional areas where competition remains weak and Telstra operates its copper network without much alternative. The […]
Open Submissions
Draft Rules Register of Critical Infrastructure & Mandatory Reporting Scheme | 1 February 2022 Following the amendment of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) in December 2021, the Minister is proposing to apply additional security obligations, including requiring certain new assets to provide operational and ownership information to the Register of Critical […]
More Policy News
The Attorney General’s office will be concluding its public hearing on the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021. This Bill addresses the High Court decision in Fairfax Media Publications v Voller [2021], which saw Australians who maintain a social media page may be liable for defamatory comments posted on their page by others to provide some […]
Old Racks in Global Switch
Members are reminded that our old racks in Global Switch were turned off on Thursday 27th January 2022 at 4:30pm AEDT. If you had any cross connects to MMR3 Rack 4 or MMR2 Rack 48, please don’t forget to remove or relocate them. Let us know if you need any assistance by emailing us at […]
Tell us Where to go
We are excited to announce that we’re currently exploring opportunities to expand our network. Based on the team’s strategic planning session earlier this month, we thought it best to ask our Corporate and Affiliate members directly – where should we expand? The survey is designed to determine where you would like us to build the […]
New Firmware for WA-IX
Our engineers applied new firmware to WA-IX to resolve a software bug – the switch located in QV1 (pe3.pe1) and NextDC P1 (pe2.pe5). The latest version has been tested in our lab and verified for deployment. This is the first of many firmware upgrades that will be progressively rolled out across all the IXes, as […]
A Piece of WA-IX History
This year marks 25 years of WA-IX. As many of you know, our first Point of Presence (PoP) was located in the basement of QV1 and is still part of our network today. The action of creating the first PoP was described by Michael Malone – president of WAIA in 1997 – as “a laudable […]