[Comtec Announce] Maintenance window 18th May 2013 - Update 1

[David Croft]

This maintenance is now beginning.

Regards,
David Croft

On 9 May 2013 22:26, David Croft <david at comtec.net.uk> wrote:
> Please be advised of the following maintenance window scheduled by one
> of our transit providers:
>
> Date: Saturday, 18th May 2013
> Start time: 22:00 BST (21:00 UTC)
> End time: Sunday 02:00 BST (01:00 UTC)
>
> Purpose
>
> During a risk analysis of [#DZS-569-97166] scheduled for 30th May, we
> identified a single point of failure in Level 3's network affecting
> both our resilient circuits.
>
> We have decided that it is prudent to address this matter ahead of the
> 30th May maintenance, even though we would have redundant transit from
> other providers should both Level 3 circuits fail.
>
> During this window Level 3 will re-route one of our geographically
> diverse transit connections.
>
> Impact
>
> We are not expecting any operational impact due to the redundancy
> built into our network. The other port will be unaffected by this
> work, as will our other transit and peering arrangements.
>
> We will cleanly shut down this session prior to the work commencing to
> prevent any packet loss during failover.
>
> Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#ZKO-122-50094].
>
> Regards,
>
> David Croft

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David Croft
Lead Network Engineer

Comtec Enterprises Ltd
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