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Traffic Soars as new Content Provider Joins the Network

Earlier this month, we welcomed Steam to the network, and from day one, the peak kept growing, pushing our network to reach a new traffic record of 901Gbps on Wednesday 11 May. The latest addition of Steam caches means that with 440Gbps of caching capacity between Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, our gamers can enjoy increased speeds when downloading new games or updating an old favourite.  

Steam caches are opt-in by default, and if you would like to opt-out of these caches, you may do so by using the following communities:  

  • 10084:2508 WA STM Opt Out  
  • 10084:2518 VIC STM Opt Out  
  • 10084:2528 QLD STM Opt Out 

If you require any assistance to opt-out, please do not hesitate to contact one of our friendly team members at peering@ix.asn.au

Open Submissions – June

National Data Security Action Plan | Department of Home Affairs | 10 June 2022
The Department of Home Affairs is calling for submissions for the development of the National Data Security Action Plan. They seek to explore with industry and state and territory governments how Government and industry can meet data security expectations, how responsibilities can be best assigned to keep Australians’ data safe, and how Government, businesses and individuals can share responsibility for data security in the future to get the best outcome for everyone.

NBN Co. SAU Variation | ACCC | 8 July 2022
The ACCC is seeking submissions to its report on NBN Co.’s SAU Variation. The proposed variation from NBN Co includes product and pricing commitments, changing the framework for NBN Co’s cost recovery, and incorporating fibre-to-the-node and other copper-based technologies to create a single regulatory framework for all technologies.

Privacy Awareness Week

Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an annual event to promote and raise awareness of the importance of protecting personal information led by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in partnership with state and territory privacy regulators and Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities.  This year, the event is highlighting privacy as the foundation of trust and will focus on simple foundations we can put in place to protect our personal information.  

We will be promoting the material through our social media accounts and will provide tips for individuals to build a solid foundation of privacy and set a challenge for you to see how well your privacy practices stack up. For more information on PAW2022, please visit their website for more detail https://education.oaic.gov.au/paw2022/  

UTS Researcher Seeks Participants for Study into Industry Engagement in Co-regulatory Rule-making

Dr Karen Lee, Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Law, is undertaking research into the ways in which service providers engage when codes of practice are drafted; and why industry participants choose to engage or disengage in code development.   

Using the development of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (C628: 2019) as a case study, the research seeks to identify the consultation mechanisms used; the difficulties encountered; the barriers to participation that industry participants of all sizes and business types might experience; the effect these mechanisms and barriers have on the code development process, and measures that might be taken to improve industry rule-making activities.  

To schedule an interview with Dr Lee or for further information about the project (UTS ETH21-6356), please contact her at karen.lee@uts.edu.au.   

Welcome, Matthew!

We are pleased to welcome Matthew Kobayashi, our newest Peering Engineer. Working with the tech team, he will be responsible for taking care of our network and assisting members with their technical enquiries.   

Matthew has a career that consists of various roles within the telecommunications and networking sectors, including working for Optus, Superloop and Megaport. He also has previous experience driving heavy vehicles as a licensed road train driver and worked for Australia Post.   

He also brings a passion for the Internet industry that started as he grew up and was fascinated by telephony and the evolving internet – wanting to understand exactly how our increasingly connected world worked under the hood, which still fascinates him to this day.  

In his spare time, Matthew enjoys going to the movies, indulging in his love for motorcycles – particularly his current ride, a 2020 BMW S 1000 XR – and is a student pilot. Although we won’t see him flying in the sky just yet, as he says, it’s a very expensive hobby!   

Testing, Testing – is the Arista Working?

Our engineers have been busy testing a new Arista 400Gbps switch with the preliminary results looking promising. If testing is successful, this new switch may be installed into our NSW-IX ring to increase capacity, and eventually make its way to our other IXes. Last month, you would have read about our 800Gbps milestone, and with traffic continuing to see steady growth rates across the network, we need a 400Gbps switch that provides flexibility and choice for large scale cloud, routing transformation, and hyperscale IO intensive applications. 

Public Policy Advisory Panel Meeting

The newly formed IAA Public Policy Advisory Panel (PPAP) had its first meeting on 14 April 2022. After an initial round robin, the panel began road-mapping future goals and plans for IAA’s advocacy team, discussed IAA’s draft Public Policy Principles and 2022 Election Wish List, and outlined upcoming consultations IAA will be involved in. It was a great opportunity to meet the panel members, and the IAA advocacy team greatly benefited from the panel’s insights coming from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.  

The IAA Public Policy Principles are a set of guiding principles that reflect IAA’s values and will shape the work and responses of IAA’s advocacy team. The 2022 Election Wish List will be taken to political representatives in the lead up to the upcoming federal election to share our thoughts on the issues that permeate the sector. Both documents have been revised following the meeting and are awaiting the board’s approval.  

The Advisory Panel will meet quarterly and discuss issues facing our members and the internet sector of Australia more broadly and will assist IAA’s advocacy work in the sector. We look forward to continuing to work with the Advisory Panel and once again express our gratitude for their time and effort. 

The Network Hits 800G

Well, it’s happened, our network hit a whopping 800G during the month of March – twice! During the past six months, we’ve come very close and as we continue to seek more content providers to join the network, it won’t be long, before we will be at the next milestone of 900G. 

Out of Band Network Project Update

Work continues on the OoB project with SA-IX deployment taking place next week; WA-IX and ACT-IX are soon to follow. NSW-IX and VIC-IX are up and running with great results and arrangements are being made for the QLD-IX deployment, amongst other things that we can’t announce just yet – so stay tuned!   

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