Services Peering
IAA operates Australia’s largest not-for-profit, carrier-neutral peering exchanges. When you choose to peer on our network, you join a community of other like-minded organisations that want to be part of a more equitable interconnection.
What is Peering?
Peering is all about making connections and improving throughput on neutral ground between as many IP networks as possible. It’s a form of connectivity that enables networks to physically connect at an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and exchange traffic.
Peering offers many benefits, including latency reduction, backhaul optimisation, and improved efficiency with the added benefit of lowering connectivity costs.
Designed to flatten the hierarchy of Internet connectivity, peering makes for a more open and equitable Internet.
Our Network
The Internet Exchanges IAA hosts operate across more than 30 data centres nationally, with IXPs located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
We colocate our equipment in data centres to offer port speeds of 10Gbps, 40Gbps, 100Gbps and 400Gbps as on-ramps to our network.
3-month Free Trial
All first ports per paid exchange begin with a FREE 3-month trial period.
Peering Features & Benefits
Lower Connectivity Costs
Faster Access
Improved Efficiency
Peering Locations
ACT-IX
NSW-IX
QLD-IX
SA-IX
VIC-IX
WA-IX
TAS-IX
Virtual Peering
What is Virtual Peering?
Virtual peering is a service for those who want to resell the IX peering service* – a quick and easy on-ramp to our the IAA peering network. This is an ideal service for Retail Service Providers (RSPs) with an existing port so you can share all the benefits of peering with more Internet users nationally.
*Resellers are responsible for the physical path / layer 2 toward the end customer from the IAA service port.
