News
Mar
18
This is an incident notification regarding IP Voice Services and
Hosted Contact Centre.

Date: Tuesday, 18th March 2014
Start time: 11:45 GMT
End time: Ongoing

Services affected:

IP Voice Services
Hosted Contact Centre

Impact:

HIGH.

Report:

We are aware of ongoing issues with one-way audio on calls on both the
IPVS and HCC platforms.

IP Exchange are currently investigating this incident with their
2nd/3rd line teams along with the vendor and the 21CN core network
team. The current focus of the investigation is within the 21CN core
network. We will keep you updated of progress as the investigations
progress. Please be assured our and IP Exchange's focus is to get this
resolved for you as soon as possible.

We appreciate your patience in this matter and will provide updates as
they become available.

We do not yet have an estimated time to resolution, however this is
affecting all customers on these platforms across all providers, and
is being treated with the utmost priority by the supplier.

A further update will be issued as soon as more information is available.

Regards,

David Croft
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Mar
18
This is an incident notification regarding IP Voice Services and
Hosted Contact Centre.

Date: Tuesday, 18th March 2014
Start time: 11:45 GMT
End time: Ongoing

Services affected:

IP Voice Services
Hosted Contact Centre

Impact:

HIGH.

Report:

We are aware of an ongoing issue with one-way audio on outbound calls
on both the IPVS and HCC platforms.

We do not yet have an estimated time to resolution, however this is
affecting all customers on these platforms across all providers, and
is being treated with the utmost priority by the supplier.

A further update will be issued as soon as more information is available.

Regards,

David Croft
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Mar
18
[IP Voice Services/Hosted Contact Centre] Service Alert 18th March 2014
Posted by David Croft on 18 March 2014 12:01 PM
This is an incident notification regarding IP Voice Services and Hosted
Contact Centre.

Date: Tuesday, 18th March 2014
Start time: 11:45 GMT
End time: Ongoing

Services affected:

IP Voice Services
Hosted Contact Centre

Impact:

HIGH.

We have received reports of one-way audio issues with outbound calls on
both the IPVS and HCC platforms. This matter has been raised with our
supplier with the highest priority.

A more detailed update will follow shortly.

Regards,

David Croft
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Mar
17
[ADSL/FTTC] Maintenance windows 25th-26th March 2014
Posted by David Croft on 17 March 2014 07:47 PM
Please be advised of the following maintenance windows scheduled on
our ADSL/FTTC service.

Date: Tuesday, 25th March 2014
Start time: 22:00 GMT
End time: 06:00 GMT (Wednesday)

Date: Wednesday, 26th March 2014
Start time: 22:00 GMT
End time: 06:00 GMT (Thursday)

Purpose:

Upgrades to our ADSL/FTTC platform.

Services affected:

ADSL/FTTC services.
(Cloud Ethernet business FTTC services will not be affected).

Impact:

Low.

Our ADSL and FTTC services are delivered through multiple redundant
sites. Each of these sites will be upgraded separately, and so we are
expecting a very minor impact.

ADSL and FTTC customers may lose connectivity briefly during these
windows, if they are currently connected to the site that is being
upgraded. Customers should find that their devices automatically
reconnect within a few minutes to an alternate site.

If you continue to have problems following this maintenance, please
turn your ADSL/FTTC modem/router off and on again. If you continue to
experience any problems after following this procedure, please contact
the NOC.

We will be monitoring our systems carefully during these windows.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#RFU-629-93955].

Regards,

David Croft
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Mar
14
[IP Voice Services] - Emergency Engineering Work: 15/03/2014
Posted by Richard Betson on 14 March 2014 01:00 PM
Please be advised of the following planned engineering works on the IP Voice Services platform:

Date: 03:00 to 06:00 on Saturday, 15/03/2014

Purpose
Our IP Voice Platform Engineering Team will be performing Emergency works to replace hardware within a call processing server within one of the platforms call processing clusters, between 03:00 on 15/03/2014 and 06:00 on 15/03/2014.

Monitoring of server hardware has indicated a failing hardware element within one of the servers in a cluster. Whilst this is still running as expected, so is not affecting service currently Engineering wish to repl ace it at the earliest opportunity to prevent it's possible failure from impacting on service in the future. As such they are carrying out these works tomorrow morning.

As this server is the primary within the cluster, prior to undertaking the works service will be rolled to its peer to ensure service that maintained with as little impact to customers as possible. When service is rolled users may experience a brief period of increased post dial delay or a drop in registration, this should last no longer than 2 minutes. We recommend that if users do experience a call setup issue that they wait 2 minutes and retry their action.

Impact
Our IP Voice Platform Engineering team will roll service at the best possible time within this window to ensure any disruption is kept to a minimum.

Once the primary is reinstated traffic will be restored back to it gradually as devices go through a standard registration refresh over the course of the weekend.

If your Phone System does not re-register automatically after the maintenance window please restart and test again before contacting the NOC for further assistance.

We apologise for the short notice of these works, the Engineering to team will be working to make sure that any disruption, if experienced, is kept to a minimum.

Regards,

Comtec Network Operation Centre

For urgent operational issues please always contact noc at comtec.com or
0845 899 1423 and not any named individual.
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Mar
7
Maintenance window 20th March 2014
Posted by David Croft on 07 March 2014 05:09 PM
Please be advised of the following maintenance window scheduled by one
of our transit providers:

Date: Thursday, 20th March 2014
Start time: 02:00 GMT
End time: 05:00 GMT

Purpose:

One of our transit providers will be performing hardware maintenance
affecting one of our redundant Internet circuits.

Services affected:

Internet access.

Impact:

Low.

No outage is anticipated due to the resilience in our network, however
services are "at-risk" during this window. Routing to some Internet
destinations will fail over to alternative circuits during this
window. IP voice services will be unaffected.

Comtec NOC is tracking this issue under ticket [#CNO-261-64251].

Regards,

David Croft
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