We have gracefully shutdown our LINX LON1 and LON2 LAN peering while our LINX Connexions provider performs some maintenance. All traffic has re-routed via other paths (LINX IXManchester, or IP Transits) without any disruption to traffic. We will bring these peers back online once our Connexions provider completes their maintenance… Continue reading
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
We will be performing network upgrades across our entire network (Manchester, Bolton, and London) shortly. We will begin with the Bolton and Manchester networks during March 2018. This work will involve replacing our entire switching network with new Cisco switches operating at both Layer 2 and Layer 3 modes. This… Continue reading
We have been notified today by Virgin Media that they will be performing maintenance on 20th October 2017 between midnight and 6am UK local time which will affect one of our fibre circuits that forms our metro ring. Although the maintenance window is 6 hours long, the anticipated circuit outage… Continue reading
IXManchester (A LINX peering point) is performing maintenance on 15th September 2017 between midnight and 6am UK local time. To prevent any disruption to routing, we have administratively shutdown all connections over this peering point overnight. We will re-establish the connections after the maintenance window has completed. Connectivity will re-route… Continue reading
As a follow-on to our UPS Service recently, Riello recommended a battery replacement of our BOL23 UPS system as they are nearing their recommended lifespan of 5 years. (They’re in their 4th year) Although the batteries tested fine in a load test, we have taken their advice and will have… Continue reading
As a follow-on to our UPS Service recently, Riello recommended a full overhaul of our BOL8 UPS system as it has reached its recommended lifespan. Although no parts were identified as failing, we have taken their recommendations and will be having the BOL8 UPS system completely overhauled on Wednesday 23rd… Continue reading
After a satisfactory 3 Week Soak Test, we brought the Virgin Media fibre circuit back into service tonight @ 17:33.
3 Week Soak Test, commenced 17-07-2017 During this test phase we have monitored a sustained stable connection,with all relevant protocols present, over the ‘sandboxed’ fibre circuit from Virgin Media. We intend to bring the fibre circuit back into service on Wednesday 09-08-2017 @ 17:30. We do not anticipate this to… Continue reading