Mar 28, 2019 | Information, Outages, Planned Work
As part of our commitment to service improvement, we would like to inform you that we will be performing planned critical maintenance as part of capacity upgrades on our core network
Maintenance window start: Wednesday 10th April 2019 23:00 GMT
Maintenance window end: Thursday 11th April 2019 06:00 GMT
Expected impact duration: The work will impact some of our DSL subscriber customers, and they will see an intermittent service within the maintenance, with a short period of down time. Service should be restored automatically but it may require a router re-boot. If after this action, service hasn’t been restored, please raise a support case in the normal manner.
Feb 15, 2019 | Information, Outages, Planned Work
We will be upgrading some of our core routers that terminate broadband sessions during the course of the weekend – each will be down for less than 30 seconds for an important firmware upgrade. These will be staggered over the two days. Most affected customers will reconnect within seconds automatically. If you have any issues, please reboot your router and if that fails for any reason, please call into or email support in the normal way.
This will only affect ADSL, FTTC & FTTP lines.
Nov 15, 2018 | Planned Work
We are seeing an issue with one of our Juniper switches in Telehouse West which affects IP addresses directly hosted on the switch. A health check on the swotch shows no issues but routing is impacted.
Currently we have worked round the issue and it is not customer impacting – However we would like to resolve this fully.
As such we will have an engineer on site Friday evening to check and resolve this. We have a spare switch to swap out with if this is a hardware issue
We will update this ticket as the work progresses
Most customers will not notice any issue other than a minor routing change. There are 3-4 directly connected customers who have been notified directly
[update]
This work completed at approx midnight on Friday. The switches have been replaced and the new 10G switches are installed. There was a unexpected issue with Broadband connections terminated in Telehouse East which we are investigating to ensure it does not re-occur
Jun 16, 2018 | Planned Work
Overnight on the 18th June – 19th June the link to one of our Wholesale providers is being worked on due to a switch firmware upgrade and reload.
We have dual links to the provider and the work will only affect one line at a time.
During the work (between 10pm on 18th and 6am on the 19th you may see your connection drop as they upgrade and reboot their switches
You should see your connection re-connect after a few seconds on our other link to them.
If your router does not re-connect automatically please turn your router off for 20 minutes to clear any stale session and then re-connect. If this fails – please call or email support in the normal way. We will update this ticket as we receive updates
Jun 16, 2018 | Planned Work
Following from the upgrades in London and Manchester the final upgrade will be to our Huntingdon Data Centre. We have a number of planned changes over the coming week.
1) Individual Rack Upgrades
A number of our hosting racks have older cisco switches in them – we are planning on upgrading them over this weekend / early over the coming week. We expect this will cause a number of short breaks to service to individual servers. We will have the new rack in place in each rack before and then simply move the patch cable for each server to the new rack. Once all servers are moved to the new switch – the old switch will be removed.
2) Power upgrades
In preparation for the new core switch units we will be adding additional power to our core racks. This should not cause any issues – However our specialist engineers will be working near the main power distribution board as such this should be considered at risk. All work will be carried out outside normal working hours
3) Core Router and Switch replacement
Once the prep work has been completed we will be replacing the core routers and switches with much faster and newer models. During the replacement process this will mean there are short periods of downtime as services and moved to the new switches and routers. We will create a separate ticket for this work as soon as we have a definate date – however we wanted to provide some notice – we anticipate this being later in the week or over the weekend – it will be outside standard working hours.
We will update this ticket as these progress
Feb 15, 2018 | Information, Planned Work
Our supplier has identified a potential issue with a fibre bearer which holds some backup links to our Huntingdon Data Centre. They are making a config change to correct this overnight.
As these are backup links it should not have a significant impact but there is some chance of packet loss as the link drops / returns as the network re-converges.
We will update this post as the work progresses
