Keeping customers updated on network, operational, and enterprise elements

EVENT START DATE: 28-03-2010

EVENT START TIME: 00:00 CST

EVENT END DATE: 28-03-2010

EVENT END TIME: 06:00 CST

EVENT IMPACT: DFW02 (Dallas)

EVENT DETAILS:

On Sunday 3/28/2010 at 00:00 CST, Layered Technologies will be performing a scheduled maintenance on the links between our core routers and the LT-Business and LT-Essentials firewall to increase capacity.  No impact is expected, but customers with these products may see some packet loss as the new links are brought into production.

EVENT START DATE:  14-03-2010

EVENT START TIME:  00:00 CST

EVENT END DATE:  14-03-2010

EVENT END TIME: :  06:00 CST

EVENT IMPACT:  No impact to customer services expected

EVENT DETAILS:

The purpose of the message is to inform you of an upgrade Layered Technologies is performing to add backbone capacity to the DataBank Data Center network.  This includes customer servers with IP addresses in the 72.232.0.0/16, 72.233.0.0/17, 64.92.160.0/20, 72.21.31.0/19 and 72.36.128.0/17 networks.  No customer impact is expected during this maintenance. While precautionary steps have been made to ensure no downtime is experienced, these changes are being executed in a change window to mitigate the risk of unexpected downtime that might occur when maintaining core devices. Please plan accordingly.

Thank you,

Layered Technologies Network Engineering

The maintenance scheduled for Saturday, 27 February 2010, has been postponed due to vendor availability.  This maintenance is tentatively scheduled to begin at 12:00 a.m. (06:00 UTC), Tuesday, 2 March 2010.

Once the tentative date is confirmed, we will generate a new post and new notifications, thanks.

EVENT START DATE: 01-03-2010 (March 1, 2010)

EVENT START TIME: 23:00 CST

EVENT END DATE: 02-03-2010 March 2, 2010)

EVENT END TIME: : 07:00 CST

EVENT IMPACT: DFW02 (DataBank – Dallas) corrective power maintenance, no impact to customer services expected

EVENT DETAILS:  LayeredTech’s DFW02 (DataBank) will undergo corrective maintenance to permanently repair a damaged bus riser duct in an area which services the LayeredTech Dallas NOC.   This is a foll0w-up maintenance to the issues reported in the following posts:

http://ltstatus.com/?p=9472

http://ltstatus.com/?p=9511

DataBank will be transfering the facility to generator power starting at 23:00 CST on Monday  March 01, 2010 while repairs are applied and tested.  Service to utility power will occur once full testing is completed.

Layeredtech operations at the site are not expected to be impacted by this activity.  However, as with any critical system maintenance, LayeredTech is announcing this maintenance window as a precaution.  Layeredtech operations  will be closely monitoring the maintenance and will provide updates as necessary.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Layeredtech Operations

EVENT START DATE: 28-02-2010

EVENT START TIME: 00:00 CST

EVENT END DATE: 28-02-2010

EVENT END TIME: : 06:00 CST

EVENT IMPACT: ORD01 (Chicago) upgrade to redundant core network device operating systems

EVENT DETAILS:

On Sunday 2/28/2010 at 00:00 CST, Layered Technologies will be performing an emergency operating system upgrade on  the redundant core connectivity routers in Chicago.  While no customer downtime is expected during this maintenance event, Internet connectivity may be affected for 10-20 minutes while routing re-converges.  Be advised that redundant Internet connectivity does exist in the LT Chicago facility, so the effect of the re-convergence is expected to be minimal.

This maintenance addresses issues experienced on 23-02-2010, as communicated in the notice http://ltstatus.com/?p=10212.

The maintenance scheduled for Saturday, 27 February 2010, has been postponed due to vendor availability.  This maintenance is tentatively scheduled to begin at 12:00 a.m. (06:00 UTC), Tuesday, 2 March 2010.

Once the tentative date is confirmed, we will generate a new post and new notifications, thanks.

EVENT START DATE: 27-02-2010

EVENT START TIME: 00:00 CST

EVENT END DATE: 27-02-2010

EVENT END TIME: : 06:00 CST

EVENT IMPACT: DFW02 (DataBank – Dallas) corrective power maintenance, no impact to customer services expected

EVENT DETAILS:  LayeredTech’s DFW02 (DataBank) will undergo corrective maintenance to permanently repair a damaged bus riser duct in an area which services the LayeredTech Dallas NOC.   This is a foll0w-up maintenance to the issues reported in the following posts:

http://ltstatus.com/?p=9472

http://ltstatus.com/?p=9511

DataBank will be transfering the facility to generator power starting at 00:00 CST on Saturday, February 27, 2010 while repairs are applied and tested.  Service to utility power will occur once full testing is completed.

Layeredtech operations at the site are not expected to be impacted by this activity.  However, as with any critical system maintenance, LayeredTech is announcing this maintenance window as a precaution.  Layeredtech operations  will be closely monitoring the maintenance and will provide updates as necessary.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Layeredtech Operations