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Jun 30 |
[IP Voice Services] Service Alert 30th June 2014
Posted by David Croft on 30 June 2014 06:19 PM |
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This is an incident notification regarding IP Voice Services. Date: Monday, 30th June 2014 Start time: 18:00 BST (UTC+0100) Services affected: IP Voice Services routing to/from PSTN. Report: The engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting all off-net call routing. On net calls remain unaffected. This matter has been escalated to our supplier. Further details will be supplied as they become available. The next update will be issued in 30 minutes. Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#OEE-382-69090]. Best regards, David Croft Read more » | |
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Jun 28 |
[Cloud Ethernet/ADSL/FTTC] Maintenance window 12th/13th July 2014
Posted by David Croft on 28 June 2014 09:46 AM |
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Please be advised of the following maintenance window scheduled by BT on the 20C and 21C networks: Date: Saturday, 12th July 2014 Start time: 22:00 BST (UTC+0100) End time: 11:30 BST Sunday (UTC+0100) Purpose: BT have advised us that they will be performing maintenance on the systems supporting their 20C and 21C networks. Services affected: Cloud Ethernet (All variants). ADSL/FTTC (All BT variants). Impact: Low. The 20C and 21C networks will continue to operate as normal, however the back-end systems supporting them will be out of service for upgrades. This includes provisioning but most importantly assurance functionality. It will not be possible to perform diagnostics during this window, nor will it be possible to raise faults or schedule repair. We are advised that this work will not affect the operation of the networks themselves, however in the event that an unrelated problem arises, we will be unable to troubleshoot or raise a fault until the maintenance is concluded. SLAs during this window are therefore suspended. Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#GFB-891-27828]. Regards, David Croft Read more » | |
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Jun 27 |
[Core Network] Maintenance window 13th July 2014
Posted by David Croft on 27 June 2014 10:51 PM |
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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 Read more » | |
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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 |
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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 Read more » | |
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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 |
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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 Read more » | |
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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 |
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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 Read more » | |