14 March 2016
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NSW-IX in Sydney is going to upgrade the software on their switches with window below.

Outage Starts:    Tuesday 15th March 2016 01:00 AEDT
Outage Finish:    Tuesday 15th March 2016 02:00 AEDT
Window:         1.0 hour
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BLPE peers with VHA over NSW-IX please take note and shutdown the sessions before the maintenance window and restart after this.

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8th March 2016
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Due to renumbering of IPv4 addressing at Equinix Sydney IX, our IPv4 address will be changed to  45.127.172.253 /22.  

The change at VHA side will happen in the window 15/03/2016 23:00pm to 16/03/2016 6am. 

Our BLPE peers at Equinix IX Sydney should note and make changes accordingly. 

See also the preso from Apricot 2016

https://conference.apnic.net/data/41/equinix-ix-ip-renumbering-in-sg-and-sy-v1_1456097908.pdf
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VHA Peering Policy :   Selective but tend to be towards OPEN.

PNI – above 1Gbps of traffic to be considered.

BLPA – above 200Mbps of traffic in any one direction, or other latency sensitive traffic but at  lower traffic level.

MPLA – all other peers with less traffic than 200Mbps unless the peers do not support MLPA.

However, if these criteria are not met, VHA is happy to discuss case by case.

We are adopting quite open peering policies in general.

Everything is negotiable.
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Our POP in Melbourne Equinix ME1 is  operational. 

As of 13 Dec 2015, Equinix-IX ME1, Megaport-IX Mel, and VIC-IX peering connections are established. 

VHA is now accepting peering over these Mel IXs subjected to the peering policies.

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We are planning to set up POPs in Perth and Brisbane for local peering with target date of Q2 2016.
