IAA Disaster Coordination
Support for members and community affected by the fires
Dear Member,
We are all feeling the impact of the bushfires raging across Australia right now. I know I’ve experienced a mix of emotions listening to and watching the news coverage, the main ones being shock and sympathy.
I’m sure, however, there will be many of our members directly affected, so with that in mind, we’d like to reach out to see if there is anything we can assist with. Perhaps you have surplus equipment or could donate something or time to those in need.
We’re hearing a lot about regional communications outages; can we use our expertise and equipment to help get things going again?
Are there any members, or member businesses, in need of equipment or practical assistance at this time? Is there anything that other members might have, or could do, that you need?
Please email donations@internet.asn.au or text/WhatsApp on +61412297043 and let us know what you have to give or need to get.
We will place a list of items and needs onto this web page that people can review, and we will look to coordinating distribution. While it won’t be possible to get things into evacuation zones this weekend, as soon as it is safe we will do our best to get people or gear into areas of need.
- Items Needed
- Handheld CB UHF radios 5W or greater
- Fibre connection b/w South Durras RFS to next door Telstra exchange
- Terminations and active equipment for South Durras RFS fibre connection plus battery back up
- Example… Solar panel
- Example… 200 phone batteries
- Items on Offer
- Example… Solar panel xW 300mmx300mm
- Icom VHF Fireground radio
- Two UHF Handheld Radio kits that includes a hand microphone, charger and extra battery
- Remote hands/smart hands support from Wollongong
- $1000 donation to IAA to use for community grant for bushfire impacted community project
- Support for a community based ISP / wireless project impacted by fires
– MikroTik Routers
– MikroTik configuration assistance
– technical and infrastructure support - Procurve switches (mix of 24 and 48 port, 100Mbps and 1Gbps, PoE and non-PoE)
- Rackspace in Sydney if people need to relocate kit ASAP – including driving a few hours either way and collect it, rack stack and get it online, give some public IP and bandwidth.
- Lots of older gear, namely 1800’s, some 7206’s (think two fully decked) in Perth
- Two c4948’s, some older 1800’s, and ISR1111 and some Cato Networks Sdwan appliances (the later could help temp comms to move data around)
- Pseudo datacentre in Perth (three-phase, secure building, NBN, could use it as an office)
- Volunteer of time (network engineer)
- Care for dogs
- Offer of time. Experience across network, systems (Unix/windows), storage, security etc.
- Compute/network/storage capacity from Equinix SY4 if it’s of any use.
- Offer of time (network engineer)
