IAA Engineers, Washif and Aaron will be taking a road trip (COVID willing) to Melbourne next month to undertake scheduled upgrades at Melbourne’s NextDC M1. The work is necessary as the current BDX8 has reached the end of its service life and we are replacing it with our brand new X870. The new switch offers better port density and 100Gbps, something the current BDX8 lacks.
This month we welcome Megan Smith to assist us in reviewing our technical documentation. Megan is a fibre engineer with broad experience from her time with NBN Co and Optus and will be an invaluable help in getting our processes and services properly documented. Welcome Megan!
Following a request for greater capacity at our B2 site, IAA Engineer Aaron Chidiac headed up to Queensland this week to upgrade the Brisbane site to support 100Gbps ports.
The upgrade was scheduled for last year however COVID delayed our plans to complete the job.
Back at the start of this year you may remember IAA dropped set up fees for 100Gbps ports at all of our IXes, so if you are looking to increase your capacity through QLD-IX you now have options at both Next DC B1 and B2 sites.
The IAA team from Perth spent a lovely morning inspecting the newest NextDC site in Perth this month. Just a short walk from our CBD office, the flash looking, Tier 4 certified datacentre is a significant building on the Perth skyline.
The tour looked at the main areas of the datacentre including the racks and the breakout spaces located throughout the building, designed to make working there more comfortable. The team also got to hear the expansion plans over the next few years as capacity and space in the current tower fills, as well as the security measures and fallback procedures that are in place to ensure complete fault tolerance and no down time at this facility.
IAA currently does not have a presence in NextDC P2. Please let us know if you would like us to add P2 to our current list of PoPs on the WA-IX.
This week we met with Infrastructure Australia to hear about the national plan for major infrastructure projects. Amazed to hear of the transformation in cost and performance that peering and Internet Exchanges make, they have asked us for our thoughts on the upcoming plan to be submitted to government and we are feverishly working towards a response. Hopefully this will assist us in getting more content and services out into the regions.
If you have any comments about the above topics, or would like to know more about specific issues, please email us at policy@internet.asn.au.
This month we have the usual round of upgrades and expansion projects and have kicked off the review of our governance. It’s been great to see thoughts coming in from members on what is important for how we operate and what matters to you in our governance. Thank you to those who have made their thoughts known, so please keep them coming as we work our way through the review. Please keep an eye on our web page on Updating our Governance.
Speaking of thoughts, it’s amazing also to see the list of issues coming in on regulation topics! From defamation to take-downs there are a bunch of likely regulation changes coming through and we are keen to put your point of view forward. Please don’t hesitate to let us know whether you like the regulation changes, or worry for the impact on your business.
The Perth team went on a tour of that flash new NextDC site, P2, so now we’re keen to hear whether members think we should be in there. It looks so nice and shiny; it will be hard to stay away!
Our friends at the New Zealand Internet Exchange are busy working on some exciting new projects that are going to be launched this year.
Following requests for a POP in Datavault (Auckland), the NZIX team is currently working on bringing the 162 Grafton Road site into production. COVID restrictions have slowed down the timing of the project, delaying the fibre paths towards Datavault however, orders are now back on track and engineers are standing by for an install. All being well, the new datacentre could be operational as soon as April.
Plans are also underway in Auckland to increase the bandwidth and diversity of NZIX’s inter datacentre links. The new AKL-IX ring will see a 200Gbps diverse link between each datacentre, ensuring healthy available capacity and reducing unpredictable spikes.
Last month NZIX surveyed its members on locations for a new IX in Wellington. Still in the early planning stages, the plan is to launch WLG-IX mid-2021. More details will be available over the coming months.
For more information on these projects email peering@ix.nz
Freshly activated at the time of writing is a brand spanking new L-Root connected into NSW-IX, with routes appearing right across IX Australia, thanks to a new partnership with ICANN. With another root instance appearing on the network your DNS lookups should be lightning fast. This means we have the I-Root on WA-IX and the L-Root in the east. Coupled with member Cloudflare’s distribution of the E, F and J-Roots, and other DNS registry operator members, your DNS performance should be second to none.
Following on from Amazon’s recent expansion across the IXes, they have now upgraded the existing 40Gbps to 100Gbps at VIC-IX. Members with services and customers using Amazon should take advantage of the additional redundancy across the exchange. The same capacity upgrade was completed in WA-IX last month.
For more information reach out to Amazon on peering-apac@amazon.com
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