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April 11th, 2006: Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has upgraded its mirror services to enable rapid downloads of Open Source software.

AARNet's 'mirror' service, which enables popular software to be stored and therefore accessed locally has been in existence since 1997. According to the organisation, "This decision was taken inline with the roll out of the AARNet3 network. The new AARNet mirror uses the latest hardware for faster performance and a vastly expanded disk subsystem. It has been deployed with a dedicated connection to the AARNet3 backbone.

"This means that it can support data rates at multi gigabit speeds with the option to upgrade that connection to 10Gbps in the future. Additional disk space has provided a larger software archive coverage that has been populated with up to date software and archive distributions. This means that Australian users can benefit from fast, reliable and high performance access to a wider range of open source software distributions."

The new AARNet mirror went live on April 10th. The website address remains unchanged at http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au. The new mirror also resides on a different IP address subnet, which may affect access where firewall policies are strictly applied.

For more information about the mirror including details about how to make access to the mirror available to your organisation, please contact AARNet's mirror team at mirror@aarnet.edu.au.

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