[ispnet-announce] Maintenance announcement: Saturday, Nov 4, 08:30-09:30 Eastern

[Bob Tinkelman]

This scheduled maintenance work will begin shortly.

I'll post another note on completion.

- Bob




> On Saturday morning (Nov 4, 08:30-09:30 ET) Telehouse will be performing
> maintenance that will involve it shutting down one of the two power feeds
> to each of the ISPnet cabinets at 85 Tenth Ave, New York, NY, the location
> of ISPnet's nycsnyoo.ispnet.net POP.

> Each cabinet has power from two circuits that are connected to an Automatic
> Transfer Switch (ATS) designed to continue providing power to the equipment
> in the cabinet as long os good power is being received on either of its
> input circuits.

> If all the ATSes work as designed, there will be no interruption to any
> customer traffic.

> If an ATS does not, then some or all the equipment in the associated
> cabinet may reboot.

> If you are an ISPnet customer and if a problem occurs, the effects will
> vary depending on how your service is provided.

> If you have equipment located at one of ISPnet's other POPs, or if your
> service is provided via a data circuit to one of ISPnet's other POPs, then
> at most you should see a brief period of routing instability as routing
> from your POP to the rest of the Internet adjusts to use different paths.

> If you have equipment located in an ISPnet-provided cabinet at 85 Tenth,
> then your equipment may reboot.

> If your service is provided through the nycsnyoo.ispnet.net POP at 85 Tenth
> (either via a data circuit or a local cross-connect) then there could be a
> service interruption if your connection is terminated on an ISPnet switch
> that reboots.  We'd estimate that any such service interruptions would last
> at most 10-15 minutes.

> ISPnet and Telehouse will have staff on-site to address any problems that
> may arise.

> Please contact ISPnet if you have any questions or requests for assistance
> in preparation for Saturday's scheduled work.