During the month of April we will be performing a series of maintenances to establish a new, upgraded core network running on the Juniper MX204 platform. This will hugely increase the capacity of our network and ready it for the planned growth in 2024 and beyond.
Core and Backbone Upgrade Backbone
- Event Started
- 2024-04-07 00:00
- Report Published
- 2024-03-13 13:07
- Last Updated
- 2024-04-24 10:44
- Event Finished
- 2024-04-28 23:59
Timeline (most recent first)
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2024-04-24
10:44:00Bringing up IX route-server sessions.
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2024-04-24
10:26:00Our second MAN-LON path has just been brought back into service after a failure at the provider.
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2024-04-24
09:50:00Bringing up LONAP peering sessions.
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2024-04-24
08:00:00After a frantic night of moving external peering and transit BGP sessions, the edge of AS41495 is a set of MX204s now: a huge upgrade.
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2024-04-23
18:06:00We've moved all our peering in the north of the UK to land on the Juniper MX204s.
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2024-04-23
15:50:00Some problems we'd been seeing on one of our old routers over the last 6-7 days had been increasing today. We've taken it out of service. It behaving this way is unrelated to our core/backbone upgrade work.
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2024-04-23
03:04:00We've enabled BGP sessions to AS3257 on
arendt.a.faelix.net
(our MX204 in Equinix MA5). -
2024-04-22
13:34:00The final pieces of the puzzle are now in place, and we'll begin migration customer sessions over to the MX204s from tomorrow.
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2024-04-19
04:10:00We are leaving site.
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2024-04-19
03:10:00The switch replacement is complete.
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2024-04-19
02:00:00During evacuation of VPS hosts in Kilburn House, ahead of the switch maintenance, one of our physical virtualisation hosts crashed causing all VPSs running on it to crash as well. There is a separate incident for this.
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2024-04-19
00:01:00During the early morning of Friday 19th April (the night of Thursday 18th), we will be replacing switches
rs163.m.faelix.net
andfs165.m.faelix.net
in Equinix MA1 Kilburn House. This will necessitate disconnecting some wholesale carrier NNIs for a few seconds while we move the fibre cross-connects over to the new devices. -
2024-04-13
02:15:00The switch has been added to the ring. We're now leaving site.
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2024-04-13
01:48:00We are beginning the work adding
rs147.x.faelix.net
to the ring. -
2024-04-12
23:59:00We'll be performing some work on our switches and routers at Interxion LON2 on the night of Friday 12th April, through till abut 4am. This will involve moving some subinterfaces on our peering/transit router at LON2 called
gunn.x.faelix.net
before installing a new switch in our London ring. As this involves breaking the ring for a short period, it will affect some services for a short while, so we will carry out that work around 04:00. -
2024-04-12
02:48:00Linknets have been moved off the QSFP+ interfaces on
gunn.x.faelix.net
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2024-04-10
13:48:00We've finished work at Telehouse North.
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2024-04-10
12:17:00Our engineers are on site at Telehouse North removing some unused DACs to the existing VyOS-based routers, in preparation for the MX204s taking their place.