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 Network Infrastructure upgrade
Posted By: JJSolutions Support On: 19 Jan 2007 10:23 AM
Details Maintenance Window - Thursday the 25th of Jan 2007

We have received the following notice from the team in the Datacentre:

The current hardware is being upgraded to a new Cisco system.

The planned date for this is next Thursday the 25th of Jan 2007. We hope to start
around 9pm and finish by midnight.

Downsides: The servers need to be re-patched - all the new equipment is in
place and configured and linked into the core network. We have all the
cabling ready to go. All we have to do is pull out the old network
cable and plug in the new one.

There may be some convergence times for mac addresses to appear on the
new port in the core of the network. This should be brief but could take up to 5 minutes.

Upsides: The servers will now be connected into one of the most modern
networks in the industry in Ireland today. We've enabled a feature called "portfast" on all customer ports so as
the time taken to negotiate the connection speed and detect if there is a loop takes less than 3 seconds. So for the most part none of you will
notice anything.

We've increased resilience from all our equipment cabinets. What we mean
by this is that we've now got 2 x links into the core network, into
separate core access switches and we're using rapid spanning tree to
fail over from one to the other in the event of a switch failure.

Bandwidth per customer cabinet will be upgraded from 100mbit per pair of switches to 1Gigabit
from each cabinet into the core network and from there to the Internet!


If you have any queries please let us know


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