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Building an ISP on a Budget

As Melbourne emerges from lockdown, we are continuing our online event series, this time looking at building an ISP on a budget.

Life Under Lockdown: Roll your own ISP, how to build a scalable, reliable ISP from low cost components will take you on a journey from start up to successful service provider.

IAA Board member Matthew Enger runs X Integration, an ISP that he started and has grown from a few hundred customers to thousands. Join Matthew as he talks us through obtaining and repurposing the parts, operating and scaling his network, and the gotchas he has seen along the way. From dDoS to regulation, this will be a useful and entertaining “how to” for everyone in the industry.

Date: Tuesday 24th November 2020
Time: 2pm AWST/5pm AEDT
Location: Zoom webinar and social

Come along and share your experiences or maybe get some ideas for a future start up project.

Members and guests can register via Zoom

How Good is Your Internet?

IAA members were treated to in depth look into how the ACCC’s broadband monitoring system works during this month’s Life Under Lockdown event. Presentations from the ACCC and their performance testing provider SamKnows explained the rationale and technology used to assess Australia’s broadband network performance.

Sean Riordan, Head of the ACCC’s broadband performance monitoring program, explained that as the economic regulator of the communications sector, the ACCC’s main objective has been to promote the long-term interests of the users of internet services. The monitoring program aimed to promote competition and consumer outcomes by providing transparency on the quality of fixed line broadband services on offer to consumers via different NBN retailers.

The SamKnows system comprises a small ‘white box’ that NBN consumers install on their home networks. It simply measures rates of transfer without interfering with download performance and the company has been working with internet companies to create specific performance tests well beyond simple ping times.

Feedback following the event showed attendees were impressed by the comprehensiveness of the measurement system and its ability to track performance and were interested to see the changes in traffic and advertising, after the monitoring program started.

The event was also live streamed to our Facebook page. If you missed it on the night, it is still available to watch.

Our Life Under Lockdown events are proving popular and we are trying to bring topics that interest members.

Please feel free to circulate our event notices within your organisations, amongst your colleagues and friends we would love more of you to attend. If there are any specific topics you would like covered or speakers you enjoy – get in touch and we will do what we can to schedule.

New Date for IAA AGM

The new date for the IAA Annual General Meeting has been set for Tuesday 27th October, 1.30pm AWST / 4.30pm AEDT.

We are pleased to announce that we have secured a guest speaker to present at this year’s AGM. Jari Arkko is an Expert on Internet Architecture with Ericsson Research based in Finland. Jari Arkko is an Expert on Internet Architecture with Ericsson Research based in Finland. He is active in the IETF and is a current member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Jari has been presenting in Europe on the evolution of the internet through the global COVID-19 pandemic and will be bringing his presentation and expertise to our AGM.

The board nomination process is now open. Members have until Tuesday 20th October to submit their nomination. The Internet Association of Australia invites members to nominate for the following positions:

  • 1 x Professional Representative (term to run for 2 years)
  • 2 x Corporate Representatives (term to run for 2 years)
  • 1 x Professional Representative (term to run for 3 years)
  • 2 x Corporate Representatives (term to run for 3 years)

More information on the nomination process and the roles and responsibilities of the board is available on our website.

Non-members can register to attend the AGM via Eventbrite.

Members can register to attend the AGM via Zoom.

How Good is our Internet?

Australians are now spending over $4 billion per year on fixed line broadband services. With the internet being such an integral part of everyday life, it is important to be confident in the information available to assist consumers in choosing the plan that best suits.

IAA’s next Life Under Lockdown event, on Tuesday 22 September, “How Good is our Internet?” will be looking at the performance of Australia’s broadband network

Hear from Sean Riordon, head of the ACCC’s broadband performance monitoring program on their approach to measuring performance. The session will include a summary of the regulator’s function, why broadband performance monitoring was adopted, an overview of how it works, and the results they have collected.

The event will also include an in-depth presentation from SamKnows who provide the technology behind the ACCC’s testing program.

RPKI Deployment Explored in Latest IAA Event

Members and friends this month enjoyed a deep dive into RPKI implementation as part of our Life Under Lockdown series.

On the topic of ‘How to avoid heists, hijacks and hostages’ the importance of BGP security was covered. Several ways of keeping your routing table secure and in sync with APNIC (and other) authoritative sources were examined.

Tashi Phuntsho from APNIC provided a practical overview on deploying RPKI on your network, and his presentation slide deck is available to download. The event was also live streamed to our Facebook page if you missed it. It is worth a re-watch.

IAA’s timetable for implementing RPKI – including whose routes will be dropped – was outlined at the event. Members are encouraged to check their advertisements match the routes they own, as we will be dropping bogons from 1 September, 2020.

Geoff Huston to Present on Trust at NFH Event

IAA has been supporting APNIC’s Networking from Home initiative over the last few months.

The final event in the series is on Tuesday 4th August, starting at 11am AEST and we encourage our members to attend.

Listen to Geoff Huston as he looks at the framework of trust in today’s Internet and explores the weakness in the system and what we are (or are not) doing about it.  The full program and details of speakers is on the Networking from Home website.

There will also be a panel on IXPs around the Pacific, looking at the role of community and regulators in the success of IXPs. Our NZIX colleague Tom Paseka, and the IAA CEO, Narelle Clark, will be participating.

Register for the event via the APNIC website

IAA Annual General Meeting – Save the Date

The Internet Association of Australia would like to invite all members to save the date for our 2020 Annual General Meeting.

Date: Tuesday 8th September
Time: 3.00pm AWST / 5.00pm AEST
Location:  Zoom (Video Conference)

We will be holding this year’s AGM online due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Further details, including how to register, will be circulated to the voting contacts of the Association’s members.

Please check your voting contacts are up to date by logging into the Member Portal.

We look forward to seeing you at our AGM to share our achievements and plans for the Association over the next year.

Changes to Networks, Staffing and Security all Discussed at IAA’s first Online Event

IAA’s first online event, Life Under Lockdown: how my network survived the pandemic, was held on Tuesday, 23 June.

In a lively discussion facilitated by our new CEO, we heard Aussie Broadband MD Phil Britt, Vocus IP Engineer Brett O’Hara, and Field Solutions Group CTO David Hooton talk about the network and operational changes they made and security issues they encountered after lockdown sent the whole country home.

With a number of great lessons on lightning fast network rearrangements, flexible staff redeployment, and more, talk also went to the question of post-COVID NBN CVC charging – we are keen to hear what you think on this topic. Please send your thoughts to info@internet.asn.au

This was the first event in our Life Under Lockdown webinar series and we are looking forward to bringing you the next event in July, Life Under Lockdown: how to stop heists, hijacks, and hostages.

IAA to hold first Online Event

IAA is kicking off its online event series with a look at how the internet has been performing during the global pandemic.

Join us for the panel session “Life Under Lockdown: how my network survived the pandemic” where we will discuss how providers have handled the impact of COVID-19.

Date: 23 June
Time: 1700 AEST (1500 AWST)
Location: Zoom (Video Conference)

The news continues to report we are in “unprecedented times” but for the vast majority of people the internet has performed really well through lockdown. Members, however, will know firsthand that a lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to deliver the stability the community has enjoyed when socialising and working from home.

During the panel session we will hear from key industry representatives, Field Solutions Group Chief Technology Officer, David Hooton, Vocus Senior IP Engineer, Brett O’Hara and Aussie Broadband Managing Director, Phillip Britt. Hear their perspectives on the wins, near misses, and issues affecting the Internet through this crisis.

The event will also include some time to catch up with your peers and share a virtual drink.

Details on how to register will be available soon. Keep an eye on our website and Facebook pages for more information.

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