Additional information will be published as it becomes available.

BoF/Wip 1

AARNet Network Structure/Design

An ideal opportunity for AARNet Technical people, mostly hub contacts but others welcome as well, to meet face-to-face and discuss an emerging, important topic 'AARNet Network Design'.

Alan Cowie, General Manager of the NSW RNO, has agreed to chair a BoF session along these lines.

BoF/Wip 2

Connecting a PABX to the AARNet VoIP.

This BOF session is available to provide an opportunity for interested delegates to participate in additional discussion following on from the half-day tutorial provided on Monday 26 June.

AARNet is commissioning the infrastructure to carry interstate calls to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, and Brisbane. This BOF will be to go through and example of how a Member of AARNet would connect to this service. Largely technical this BOF will cover the design and configuration of a commonly used Gateway, the QoS, and common PABX programming.

BoF/Wip 3

Telecommunications Facilities Access
Regime and the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

In keeping with the themes to be explored in other sessions on 28 June a presentation and opportunity for further discussion.

The Telecommunications Act 1997 has reduced telecommunications carriers' immunities from planning and environmental laws when installing cables, towers and other telecommunications facilities. As a result it is now more important for carriers to be able to access the existing facilities of other carriers, many of which were established under the old regulatory regime of the Telecommunications Act 1991. Under the facilities access regime established by the standard carrier licence conditions, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had a role in regulating access to certain facilities, while the Australian Communications Authority regulates access to other facilities.