Month: September 2013

We will be reviewing our out-of-band management on this service and associated
servers. If adjustments are required then we will be conducting a controlled
reboot in order to adjust the iLO BIOS on each device. An outage is expected during this window as handsets will be unable to register to the platform and will result in a timeout.

This outage will due to its nature and the individual settings of each handset result in a possible stuck NAT session with a customers router, Where a customer has all our required managed hardware and where Structured Communications have a current and valid maintenance contract with the site, we will reboot the required hardware remotely. Where this is not the case, customers are requested to power-cycle there hardware if they find there handsets have not re-registered following this work.

UPDATE @ 18:46 – 25/09/2013

This was has been postponed

This work has been rescheduled for Monday the 07/10/2013 (same time window)

UPDATE @ 22:00 – 07/10/2013

This work is now complete

We will be reviewing our out-of-band management on this service and associated
servers. If adjustments are required then we will be conducting a controlled
reboot in order to adjust the iLO BIOS on each device. Several small outages may
be seen for HTTP traffic, FTP traffic and Email flow (both inbound and outbound). Email will not be lost durning this window as it should be queued on the originating server.

UPDATE @ 18:46 – 25/09/2013

This was has been postponed

This work has been rescheduled for Monday the 07/10/2013 (same time window)

UPDATE @ 22:00 – 07/10/2013

This work is now complete

We will be reviewing our out-of-band management on this service and associated servers. If adjustments are required then we will be conducting a controlled reboot in order to adjust the iLO BIOS on each device. Several small outages may be seen while connections automatically fail-over to redundant hardware and ultimately back to the primary hardware.

UPDATE @ 18:46 – 25/09/2013

This was has been postponed

UPDATE @ 09:30 – 30/09/2013

This work has been rescheduled for Monday the 07/10/2013 (same time window)

UPDATE @ 21:00 – 07/10/2013

This work is now complete

Providers continue to deplete there IPv4 allocations and Structured Communications are no different. In preparation for our own depletion we will soon be enabling IPv6 support with our upstream providers. Further information will follow shortly.

**UPDATE 01 @ 01:00 – 08/09/2013**
We have experienced a delay in getting our current BGP sessions IPv6 enabled with our primary upstream peers. For this reason we have entered in to a peering agreement with Hurricane Electric to tunnel our IPv6 subnet over IPv4 for testing. We are announcing this range via our ASN (199283) to Hurricane Electric ASN (6939). The range is visible globally.

**UPDATE 02 @ 22:07 – 13/10/2013**
We are pleased to advise all our existing IPV4 BGP peering has been reconfigured to include IPV6 BGP sessions. At this moment in time we are announcing our entire /29 subnet (2a04:2140::/29) while we continue to test. We have several IPv6 DualStack servers operating within our range without incident and will be looking to fully enable our network for IPV6 in the next coming months. IPv6 will be available to customers once this is complete and will start off with co-location packages.