At 10:31am this morning, we noticed one of our metro network interconnects between Bolton and Manchester, provided by Virgin Media, flapped.
We have reported the fault to Virgin Media and are awaiting their investigation.
Our network runs via a redundant ring of interconnects from multiple vendors and any traffic on this affected link will automatically re-route via the opposite direction in the ring.
VirginMedia have confirmed that they are seeing errors and alarms on their “metnet” port within their network, and an engineer has been tasked to the VM site to investigate a potential card failure.
VirginMedia have reported that a fault in their power distribution system on a leg of their “metnet” is responsible for the issue.
A temporary fix has been applied, but we have kept this link out of service until a more permanent fix has been completed.