News
Jun
27
[Core Network] Maintenance window 13th July 2014
Posted by David Croft on 27 June 2014 10:51 PM
Please be advised of the following maintenance window scheduled on our network:

Date: Sunday, 13th July 2014
Start time: 10:00 BST (UTC+0100)
End time: 14:00 BST (UTC+0100)

Purpose:

We will be performing software upgrades on our distribution switches at Reigate.

Services affected:

All services hosted in Comtec House, Reigate (LSREI01).

Impact:

Low.

The redundant pair of distribution switches will be upgraded one at a
time. Customers who have connected to both distribution switches per
our recommendations will observe no operational impact as they will
fail over to the redundant switch while the other is being upgraded.

Customers who are single-homed to our network will observe a period of
downtime of 5-15 minutes during this window. In the event that
roll-back is required, there will be a further interruption while the
original software is restored.

No outage is anticipated due to the resilient nature of our network
and transport out of Reigate, however services are "at-risk" during
this window. IP voice services will be unaffected.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#GZO-670-71256].

Regards,

David Croft
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Jun
10
[ADSL/FTTC] Service Alert 9th June 2014 - Update 5
Posted by David Croft on 10 June 2014 12:50 PM
This is an incident notification regarding ADSL/FTTC services.

Date: Monday, 9th June 2014
Start time: 11:00 BST (UTC+0100)
End time: 11:44 BST (Workaround applied)
End time: 10 June 12:22 BST (Resilience restored)

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC customers, excluding Cloud Ethernet FTTC.

Report:

We experienced an issued that caused all ADSL/FTTC customers to
disconnect and be unable to reconnect. We determined that this issue
was not caused by our network and escalated this matter with our
supplier.

At that time we put into place a workaround allowing customers to
reconnect using a backup route.

Our supplier has determined that the root cause was a bug in Brocade
software causing an invalid configuration to be applied to a core
network router. This issue was resolved in conjunction with Brocade
TAC.

The primary path has therefore been tested and put back into service.
At this time, all services are operating normally with full
resilience.

This is the final update.

Comtec NOC was tracking this issue under ticket [#ROI-515-53554].

Best regards,

David Croft
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Jun
9
[ADSL/FTTC] Service Alert 9th June 2014 - Update 4
Posted by David Croft on 09 June 2014 02:11 PM
This is an incident notification regarding ADSL/FTTC services.

Date: Monday, 9th June 2014
Start time: 11:00 BST (UTC+0100)

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC customers, excluding Cloud Ethernet FTTC.

Report:

We experienced an issued that caused all ADSL/FTTC customers to
disconnect and be unable to reconnect. We determined that this issue
was not caused by our network and escalated this matter with our
supplier.

Update: Our supplier has determined that the root cause is a bug in
one of their core routers. They have raised this issue with Brocade
TAC.

We have a workaround in place and have migrated all customers to a
backup link. All customers should be connected and if you are
experiencing any issues, please contact the NOC.

At this time all services are operating normally, albeit with reduced
resilience. The next update will therefore be issued as more
information becomes available.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#ROI-515-53554].

Best regards,

David Croft
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Jun
9
[ADSL/FTTC] Service Alert 9th June 2014 - Update 3
Posted by David Croft on 09 June 2014 01:08 PM
This is an incident notification regarding ADSL/FTTC services.

Date: Monday, 9th June 2014
Start time: 11:00 BST (UTC+0100)

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC customers, excluding Cloud Ethernet FTTC.

Report:

We are aware of an issue on the BT network that has caused all
ADSL/FTTC customers to disconnect and be unable to reconnect.

We have determined that this issue is not caused by our network and
have escalated this matter with our supplier.

Update: At the moment they are investigating a particular network link
that appears to be the root cause. We have put in a temporary
workaround to allow customers to reconnect while we troubleshoot the
root cause with our supplier.

The next update will be issued in 1 hour.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#ROI-515-53554].

Best regards,

David Croft
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Jun
9
[ADSL/FTTC] Service Alert 9th June 2014 - Update 2
Posted by David Croft on 09 June 2014 11:47 AM
This is an incident notification regarding ADSL/FTTC services.

Date: Monday, 9th June 2014
Start time: 12:00

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC customers, excluding Cloud Ethernet FTTC.

Report:

We are aware of an issue on the BT network that has caused all
ADSL/FTTC customers to disconnect.

We have determined that this issue is not caused by our network and
have escalated this matter with our supplier.

Update: We have put in a temporary workaround to allow customers to
reconnect while we troubleshoot the root cause with our supplier.
Customers should find that they have reconnected automatically; if
not, please open a ticket with the NOC.

The next update will be issued in 1 hour.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#ROI-515-53554].

Best regards,

David Croft
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Jun
9
[ADSL/FTTC] Service Alert 9th June 2014 - Update 1
Posted by David Croft on 09 June 2014 11:34 AM
This is an incident notification regarding ADSL/FTTC services.

Date: Monday, 9th June 2014
Start time: 12:00

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC customers, excluding Cloud Ethernet FTTC.

Report:

We are aware of an issue on the BT network that has caused all
ADSL/FTTC customers to disconnect. At this time they are unable to
reconnect.

We have determined that this issue is not caused by our network and
have escalated this matter with our supplier.

Update: We are in direct contact with the engineer who is
troubleshooting the issue and hope to have a resolution soon.

The next update will be issued in 15 minutes.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#ROI-515-53554].

Best regards,

David Croft
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