[Comtec Announce] Maintenance window 18th May 2013 - Update 2

[David Croft]

This maintenance has been completed without incident.

Regards,
David Croft

On 18 May 2013 21:59, David Croft <david at comtec.net.uk> wrote:
> 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

-- 
David Croft
Lead Network Engineer

Comtec Enterprises Ltd
Comtec House
46a Albert Road North
Reigate Industrial Estate
Reigate
Surrey RH2 9EL

Tel: 0845 899 1400
Fax: 0845 899 1401
www.comtec.com

For urgent operational issues please always contact noc at comtec.com
or 0845 899 1423 and not any named individual.