The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has published guidance material regarding the carrier separation rules. The explanatory guide has been prepared following industry consultation – to which IAA responded – and is aimed to assist industry’s understanding of the superfast fixed-line broadband network carrier separation obligations.
Read the guidance material here.
We have completed deployment of our local (non-authoritative) Internet Route Registry (IRR) mirror, which has already yielded some impressive benefits for members.
Route server configuration generation and update times have been cut from approximately 15 minutes to approximately one minute. These times apply to the removal of prefix-set expansion from configuration updates as we currently do not filter on prefix-sets. But even with prefix-set generation included, the generation and update times are now only about 5 minutes – this is one-third of what they used to be!
Additionally, generation/update runs are no longer failing due to connectivity issues or rate limiting by upstream IRR database providers. This was a consistent issue we were running into, especially when an out-of-cycle update was requested by a member to incorporate a change to their allowed ASNs or prefixes.
We successfully completed power remediation works at QV1 on 18 October, following several power disruptions to the facility in recent months. Over what seemed like a never–ending night we installed a new UPS with better monitoring, a new automatic transfer switch and a new mechanical bypass for the UPS, as well as additional improvements to the redundancy of power feeds to each rack to eliminate single points of failure. This new equipment and configuration are designed to ensure a reliable source of power to all racks in the WA–IX room during power disruptions to the wider QV1 building. We thank everyone for their patience in waiting for this work to happen, but we wanted to make sure it went in right, which of course meant appropriate supervision of the work as it happened.
To quote Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, ‘Oh, what a night’. Thank you to all who came and celebrated an incredible milestone – 25 years! The evening began with the AGM and quickly moved into the more informal, celebratory portion – WA-IX’s 25th birthday celebration. With a great turnout, we enjoyed the opening remarks from our wonderful CEO, Narelle Clark, followed by a very passionate Welcome to Country delivered by Elder Len Collard – we even received a traditional emblem showing permission for IAA to operate on Whadjuk Nyungar country. Chief Digital Officer Jonas Petersen from the WA Government soon followed with a great speech, finishing off with the incredible Michael Malone talking about WAIA and WA-IX and what it meant for the fledgeling ISP industry.
The evening buzzed with excitement, and food and drinks continued to flow until the big, delicious WA-IX cake was cut. Michael Malone, Narelle Clark, Anna Protoolis, James Bromberger and Mark Dignam gathered around and finished marking the celebration as they all cut it together. The evening ended with a couple of special mentions and went straight back into lively chatter. It really was a wonderful celebration, and we hope you all enjoyed it – event photos are now available to view in the Photo Gallery.
Cheers to 25 years!
Since we were fortunate enough to have almost the entire Board present at the events, we thought we would slot in a Board Strategy Workshop where we could bring together all the great ideas of the Board and staff, and start making plans for the next year and beyond.
The day started with a Board meeting that saw Matthew Enger re-appointed as Chair and Brett O’Hara re-appointed as Deputy Chair – congratulations, fellas; we are very appreciative of your hard work. It then continued into very fruitful discussions about much of what we do. Watch this space, members; there is much to look forward to!
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