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Activity ID: 3016

Activity type

ACTIVITY/OUTAGE:

Subject

UA Network - AT&T Carrier Maintenance

Short description

AT&T will be upgrading the distribution Router for Seward, Homer GI and UAA Remote Campus Sites

Scope

All network traffic to and from the campuses listed:

UAF Seward, UAF Homer-GI, and UAA Remote Campus Sites.

Status 1

Carrier Maintenance

Start day

Friday, 3-8-2013

Time:

10:00 pm

Recovery day

Saturday, 3-9-2013

Time:

12:00 am

Duration

2 Hours

Description

Per AT&T:

AT&T will be upgrading the distribution Router that aggregates your VPLS network on March 8th. This upgraded is expected to take no more than four hours. The Router has two routing engines. When we upgrade the first one there will be a momentary hit (milliseconds) while traffic gets routed

through to the second routing engine. The same outage will occur later when the second routing engine gets upgraded. During this time the following locations will be segregated from the rest of your network.

Circuits

The following circuits will be Affected:

IUEC 517877 UAA-AT&T

DNEC 75429 UAA Homer

DNEC 512950 UAA Kenai

DNEC 754298 UAA Kodiak

DNEC 754295 UAA Mat-Su

DNEC 754299 UAA Valdez

DNEC 754297 UAF Seward

DHEC 622223 UAF Homer-GI

Comments

Users will experience momentary interruption to network connectivity as traffic is re-routed.

Affected customers

All data network users at the following campuses:

UAA Kachemak Bay Campus

UAA Kenai Peninsula College

UAA Kodiak Campus

UAA Mat-Su Campus

UAA Prince Williams Sound Community College

UAF Seward Marine Center

UAF Homer-Gi

Authorized by

Earl Voorhis OIT Network Operations