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From the CEO’s desk – February 2026

Well, here we are in 2026!

With this sweltering summer half over already, we look to the list of things we have in the pipeline this year: a suite of events where we’ll visit communications history museums, more upgrades to get 400G ports everywhere, and hopefully polishing off our network automation efforts soon. Some of you will have already seen the benefit of roll-back capability and route server integration, which are super useful, I’m sure. We’ve recently also completed rearranging our content services to improve access and keep the deluge of Google content flowing your way, and activated a new POP at NextDC’s S2.

Like many of you, we’ll also have to lift our compliance game with the new security requirements landing later this year. We’ve been managing our risk and reporting it to our Board for quite some time, but having to certify our level of compliance will be a challenge, one I’m sure our Members will be sympathetic to. We’re also sorting out some training to ensure that our Members have the best opportunity to be compliant with the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence standard that came into being last year. You’ll find more detail in this newsletter item on a practical, cost-effective approach to supporting compliance, including shared training and consultation costs across the Membership.

Another big event for us will be to join our brothers and sisters across the ditch as they celebrate 10 years of NZIX! We remain close partners to their success with us continuing to operate their peering exchanges and admin systems for them. It’s been a fascinating journey watching them grow to where they are today.

Happy peering!

Narelle

Question from the desk

Each newsletter, I will pose a question to Members, because your perspective is important. Please email me with your thoughts and opinions. Over to you:

In the era of risk compliance – which model have you chosen to certify with, and why?

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We’ve come a long way since WAIA

Last month marked 10 years since we became the Internet Association of Australia.

Back in January 2016, our community was growing well beyond Western Australia. With the successful launch of NSW-IX, momentum building nationally, and NZIX taking shape, it became clear our name needed to reflect who we really were.

Under President Tom Berryman, the Association proposed a change from the Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) to the Internet Association of Australia (IAA).

  • We had the logo.
  • We had the domain.
  • We had the vision.


What we needed was Member support.

At a well-attended Special General Meeting in Perth, Members overwhelmingly backed the change, reflecting our evolution from a WA-centric organisation to one with national reach and purpose.

Who can say what the next decade will bring?  

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Welcoming Sybil Williams to the IAA Board

Please join us in warmly welcoming Sybil Williams to the IAA Board. Following the Board Planning Retreat in November, Sybil was appointed as a director of the Association. She took up the appointment to assist the Board and staff, bringing a strategic and market-facing perspective to support the Association’s advocacy, growth, and long-term direction.

Sybil brings more than 20 years’ experience in marketing, communications, and strategy, working with technology, telecommunications, and purpose-led organisations. She is the Founder of Atomic Tangerine, where she advises boards and executive teams on strategy, marketing, brand positioning, and stakeholder engagement.

As we look to strengthen the Association’s market position, improve engagement with Members and pursue sustainable growth opportunities, we are thrilled to gain her experience and expertise.

If you have any questions, please email us at secretary@internet.asn.au.

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Looking ahead: what’s coming in 2026 for our network

As we head into 2026, our technical roadmap is focused on scale, automation, and delivering stronger performance and value for our Members across all exchanges. Here’s a snapshot of what’s underway:

Service automation
Over the past few months, we’ve been building towards our goal of full-service automation across ports, peering, and VLL services. Our plan is to enable faster provisioning and improved self-service capability through the IAA Member Portal. We’re targeting an early 2026 release, and when it’s ready we’ll be making some noise!

AS10084: new routers coming online
As our content network continues to grow, so too does the demand for larger capacity ports. We will be upgrading content routers at each exchange to 32x100Gbps platforms, with 400Gbps uplinks towards the exchange fabric, strengthening our capacity for growth.

VIC-IX 400Gbps deployment
With new hardware on the way, we will be upgrading VIC-IX to be fully 400Gbps capable across all sites. This is a key step in supporting ongoing growth in traffic volumes and high-capacity Member requirements.

VIC-IX NEXTDC M2 deployment
IAA is looking to expand our coverage on the VIC-IX. With more and more organisations setting up operations in Melbourne due to subsea cable connections, we see a lot of growth here still to come.

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IAA Member Portal improvements are now live!

We’ve rolled out a set of practical improvements to the IAA Member Portal, designed to give Members greater control, faster service changes, and better visibility over their connectivity.

Change request rollbacks

Members can now roll back changes made to their services directly within the Portal.

While requests are still actioned by our network team, this feature provides an extra layer of confidence when making changes and is an important step toward fully automated provisioning.

Faster peering activation

The Portal is now integrated directly with our route servers for peering services.

When ordering a new peering service, a Member’s BGP session details are deployed on demand, meaning new peering can be active as soon as the service is provisioned, rather than waiting up to 24 hours as before.

Updates to existing peering services (such as AS-SETs and prefix limits) are also applied immediately.

Smarter cross connect reminders

When Members upgrade or cancel ports, the Portal will now issue reminders to cancel old cross connects with their data centre provider.

There are mutual benefits here as Members can ensure they aren’t paying data centres for cross connects they aren’t using any more, and we can make more efficient use of our data centre cabling.

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