Western Australian Internet Exchange

Western Australian Internet Exchange

The Western Australian Internet Exchange (WAIX) was formed in 1997 as a neutral Internet Exchange Point in Perth, Australia. Its three founding members were iiNet, "Omen Internet" and "Wantree Internet". Today WAIX has over 50 peers and facilitates the transfer of over a gigabit per second.

The exchange is a project of the Western Australian Internet Association which acts as the corporate patron of the project, although the facility is self-funded on a not-for-profit basis through modest access fees. WAIX is the longest running exchange point in Australia.

The facility is located in the "QV.1" building in central Perth, and most Western Australian ISPs and all data passing through the Kalgoorlie Satellite Gateway peer at the facility. The exchange has a compulsory Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement "MLPA", however bi-lateral interconnection at the facility is welcome in addition to the MLPA.

Brief History

The peering fabric first existed informally as links between "Wantree Internet" and "Omen Internet" to iiNet. WAIX formalised as an initiative by the Western Australian Internet Association after a presentation by Andrew Khoo on his similar work in Sydney and Melbourne to create multi-lateral peering fabrics in both cities. The ISPs at the presentation later agreed they could form the fabric themselves and did so by purchasing a small room in "QV.1" and began as a formal peering exchange after Omen, iiNet and Wantree moved their interconnects into the peering room.

Various attempts were made over the first few years to arrange traffic exchange between peers at WAIX and peers at other Australian internet exchanges (notably the "South Australia Internet Exchange", or SAIX) allowing peers to pay for interstate traffic. This was an arrangement with one of the peers at the time (information needed) who peered at more than one Australian peering fabric. Similar arrangements were formalised in the eastern states with the formation of AusBone.

External links

* [http://www.waia.asn.au/waix/ Western Australian Internet Exchange homepage]
* [http://groups.google.com.au/group/aus.org.waia/browse_thread/thread/f3161b041a8ec292/cf5f86fa8d09fc0d?hl=en#cf5f86fa8d09fc0d Usenet article announcing the Peering Discussion]

References

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last = Tweedie
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title = West Australia Internet Exchange update
booktitle = APNIC 17
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location = Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
url = http://www.apnic.net/meetings/17/docs/sigs/ix/ix-pres-tweedie-waix.pdf
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