ICONZ Connects to Pacific IX
As you may be aware, Vocus (our primary international transit provider) is introducing a new trans-Tasman peering service called PacificIX. This new service will provide a fabric across which parties in both New Zealand and Australia can connect to the same Layer 2 fabric, and exchange Layer 3 peering sessions.
We expect to be launching the PacificIX service from the 8th of March, as part of our continuous drive to improve services for our customers. We believe this will deliver some excellent improvements including:
• Lower latency times to hosts in Australia
• Potentially reduced utilization of (chargeable) international bandwidth
• Improved network redundancy
These benefits may take some time to flow through to customers as other providers sign on to PacificIX, but we believe they will grow over time as more key parties connect to the service.
Customers who source their IP address space from ICONZ will gain automatic use of this service from March 8th from launch. A fair use policy will be enforced, but there will not be any rating in place at this time.
Currently this service is not available to customers who provide their own IP address space. However, we will be offering the chance to participate following the launch.