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This work is complete, thank you. -Mark On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:31 PM Mark Calkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This maintenance will begin within the next 30 minutes. > -Mark > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM Mark Calkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Greetings Valued IX-Denver Members, >> >> We will be conducting extensive maintenance starting the night of August >> 14th on or near 11:00pm MDT (05:00 UTC). This work is to standardize and >> overall improve our core in the 910 Telecom meet me room. At or near the >> start time we will begin blackholing BGP keepalives so BGP sessions and >> traffic will roll off naturally. You may see ports go down and come up >> multiple times during this work but BGP keepalive discarding will remain in >> effect until we are finished. >> >> Scope of work: >> - Software and OS patching of route servers and hypervisors. >> - Physical move of both route server hypervisors to a new cabinet. >> - Physical move of infrastructure routing and switching gear to a new >> cabinet. >> - Re-racking/stacking peering switching gear to optimal positions to >> account for new cable management, future 100g switches, and organized >> future growth. >> - Code upgrades to all core switches for support of cutover to layer 3 >> EVPN VXLAN overlay (core underlay/overlay cutover will be in separate >> maintenance in the near future). >> - Cut in optical mux equipment for expanding bandwidth capabilities in >> and out of our core. >> >> We know this is a lot but we think we can complete this work in a timely >> manner. We expect the work will take approximately 3 hours to complete. >> Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns. I will send a >> reminder shortly before the work begins, and a closing message when we are >> complete. >> >> Cheers, >> -Mark >> >> >> >> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the IXDENVER list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(IXDENVER,SIGNOFF);