Welcome to the Free Peering Project

Welcome to the Free Peering Project, and thank you for taking the time to visit.

This site is intended to provide a repository of information on public, neutral Internet Exchanges in the NZ Internet. There's a glossary and answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) which will give you the background to these issues.

Recent events and announcements, covered by the stories below, have brought the issue of peering and Internet Exchanges to the fore in the NZ Internet.

Disclosure: This site is hosted by CityLink, operators of the APE and WIX.

Peering News

• Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
  2 Feb 2008
  Richard Naylor and Andy Linton interview

• The Quilt Fosters Rural Peering
  15 Dec 2005
  Small ISPs yearning to offer more services now can now do so—if they are lucky enough to be located next to any of the 22 GigaPOPs that are a part of The Quilt.

• Blackout shows Net's fragility
  6 Oct 2005
  Since early Wednesday, Phil Bradham, the network engineer at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, has been cut off from the parts of the Internet he needs the most.

• Actually It's Not Alright...
  30 Jun 2005
  Check out Russell's commentary on peering and please take a couple of minutes to listen to RB's interview with Paul Brislen. It is compelling listening!!

• Radio NZ readies internet broadcasts
  30 Jun 2005
  In two to three weeks' time, Radio New Zealand expects to start delivering a range of on-demand content and simulcast audio over the internet.

• Peer Pressure?
  22 Jun 2005
  The National Library of New Zealand would like to thank TelstraClear New Zealand for providing a quick alternate National and International Internet service to us by setting up a BGP routing/Peering connection over our existing CityLink Network connections to bypass the major Telecom network outage on Monday.

• Digital shakes up entertainment
  13 Jun 2005
  The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control.