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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);