Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham’

Planned Maintenance: birmingham-te.core.enta.net

Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 at 14:36 by Gurinder Bansal

Friday 15th February 2018 00:01-06:00

During the above window we will be replacing Birmingham-te.core.enta.net with a higher capacity router.

We expect all services currently terminated in this location to have a maximum downtime of 1 hour. Services include Transit, Leased lines, Wholesale handoff and Pseudowires. Whilst actual downtime is expected to be no more than 60 Minutes, the full 6 hours may be required to account for any unforeseen issues.

All other traffic that would normally route through this location will take alternative paths.

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  1. Gurinder Bansal says:
    February 15, 2019 at 00:00

    This work is now commencing.

  2. Gurinder Bansal says:
    February 15, 2019 at 00:52

    This work is now complete.

Planned Maintenance: bir.core.enta.net

Posted: Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 at 14:35 by Gurinder Bansal

Thursday 14th February 2018 00:01-06:00

During the above window we will be replacing Bir.core.enta.net with a higher capacity router.

We expect all services currently terminated in this location to have a maximum downtime of 1 hour. Services include Leased lines, Wholesale handoff and Pseudowires. Whilst actual downtime is expected to be no more than 30 Minutes, the full 6 hours may be required to account for any unforeseen issues.

All other traffic that would normally route through this location will take alternative paths.

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  1. Gurinder Bansal says:
    February 14, 2019 at 00:01

    This work is now commencing.

  2. Gurinder Bansal says:
    February 14, 2019 at 00:54

    This work is now complete.

Planned Maintenance: birmingham-te.core.enta.net

Posted: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 at 09:48 by Gurinder Bansal

Friday 27th April 2018 00:01-06:00

During the above maintenance window, we will be installing additional core equipment as part of ongoing network expansion.

All services currently terminated in this location will be migrated on to the new hardware. This includes all DSL, EWCS, leased lines and wholesale circuits at this location. Whilst actual downtime is expected to be no more than 20 minutes for each circuit, the full 6 hrs may be required to account for any unforeseen issues.

All other traffic that would normally route through this location will not be affected.

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  1. Gurinder Bansal says:
    April 27, 2018 at 02:32

    This work is now complete

Incident: Birmingham 3 Power Loss

Posted: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 at 13:55 by Gurinder Bansal

We are currently experiencing a loss of power within our Birmingham 3 point of presence. This is causing a loss of service for a small number of directly connected leased line customers.  Affected customers have been contacted and advised directly.

Engineers are currently investigating and already have resources on their way to site to continue their investigation. Further updates will be provided as and when they become available.

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  1. Mark Yardley says:
    February 15, 2017 at 16:03

    Power has been restored to the affected customers. However, replacement equipment is required to restore fully redundant power to this site. Further updates on the progress of this work will be provided as and when available.

Emergency Maintenance

Posted: Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 00:04 by Steve Lalonde

Thursday 02/12/2010 01:00 – 06:00

Reminder: Emergency Maintenance affecting the following routers will be starting shortly

  • bir.core.enta.net
  • bir-te.core.enta.net
  • peterborough.core.enta.net
  • stoke.core.enta.net
  • telford-dc1.core.enta.net
  • telford-dc3.core.enta.net
  • wolv.core.enta.net
  • wolve-te.core.enta.net

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  1. Steve Lalonde says:
    December 2, 2010 at 03:34

    This work has now completed, all services are operating normally.

Outage: Wolverhampton to Birmingham

Posted: Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 13:38 by David Derrick

Our link between Wolverhampton and Birmingham has gone down. We are investigating with our supplier. Traffic is being rerouted via alternate paths, some increase in latency may be seen.

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  1. David Derrick says:
    March 12, 2010 at 16:34

    Our supplier reports that engineers should be arriving shortly to find the exact location of the fibre break. There is no ETR at this time.

  2. Steve Lalonde says:
    March 13, 2010 at 07:34

    Service was restored at 22:05 All traffic is now on the preferred paths.

Planned work: bir.core.enta.net

Posted: Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 13:41 by Steve Lalonde

Wednesday 20th Jan 2010, 05:00hrs – 05:30hrs

During the maintenance window above the IOS on the router will be upgraded to resolve some configuration issues. This software upgrade will require a reboot of the router which should take approx 10 minutes to complete, during which all directly connected customers will lose connectivity.

Traffic that would normally be routed through this equipment will route via alternate paths.

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  1. Steve Lalonde says:
    January 20, 2010 at 07:06

    This work was canceled due to the unscheduled reboot yesterday.

Planned work: birmingham-te.core.enta.net

Posted: Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 13:39 by Steve Lalonde

Wednesday 20th Jan 2010, 04:30hrs – 05:00hrs

During the maintenance window above the IOS on the router will be upgraded to resolve some configuration issues. This software upgrade will require a reboot of the router which should take approx 10 minutes to complete, during which all directly connected customers will lose connectivity.

Traffic that would normally be routed through this equipment will route via alternate paths.

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  1. Steve Lalonde says:
    January 20, 2010 at 07:04

    This work was completed successfully.

Outage: Birmingham to London

Posted: Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 11:24 by Adam Heath

The primary path from Birmingham to London is currently down.  Traffic is being routed via alternate paths, there may be a small increase in latency.

We have reported this to our supplier.  More details will be posted as and when they are made available.

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  1. Martyn Haynes says:
    November 21, 2009 at 11:32

    Further to the post above I have been advised that this is planned work and will continue for up to 24 hours. Traffic is being routed via alternative paths.