Our engineers applied new firmware to WA-IX to resolve a software bug – the switch located in QV1 (pe3.pe1) and NextDC P1 (pe2.pe5). The latest version has been tested in our lab and verified for deployment. This is the first of many firmware upgrades that will be progressively rolled out across all the IXes, as we prepare for automation and standardise the firmware across our hardware.

Essential means what?
Over recent times we’ve been hearing increasingly strident demands to legislate and regulate telecommunications as an essential service, coupled with

