We’ve just been informed of some maintenance tomorrow between 7am and 7pm UK local time that may affect 2 legs of our metro ethernet ring in Manchester. Our metro ethernet ring should automatically re-route traffic via its alternate routes (BT, VirginMedia, Vodafone), but may cause a couple of periods of… Continue reading
To continue our network upgrades, we have ordered upgrades of our metro ethernet circuits, and IP Transit feeds. This will bring our metro ethernet rings up to a minimum of 10Gbit/s per segment. It will also increase our external connectivity to multiples of 10Gbit/s. Lead times for 10Gbit/s upgrades… Continue reading
At 10:07pm this evening, our monitoring detected the loss of our Metro Ethernet Ring links from one our suppliers. Our ring automatically reconverged as designed. At 10:13pm this evening, we saw these links reconnect. No planned maintenance is known, so we have raised a query with the supplier and… Continue reading
At approx 2:56pm UK local time today, we saw packet loss across our entire metro network for around 4 minutes. Initial diagnostics showed that one of our core network ring Cisco 3850-series switches had failed (it was stuck in a boot loop with failing self-tests). Ordinarily, this should not have… Continue reading
At 14:56 we had a core switch failure, and a consequential period of reconvergence, lasting approximately 4 minutes. This event will have been service affecting for some cutomers on our network. We are investigating the root cause of the hardware failure, and will publish a fuller RFO on our status… Continue reading