Emergency Works 14/04/2021 – 02:00 (Broadband)

We have been made aware by our suppler that they will be making changes to our 10GB interconnects at Telehouse North and East at 02:00 on the 14/04/2021 to resolve the low level packet loss being seen on some broadband services and non critical traffic types. This work should not be service affecting however one of the access switches we are connected to may reload as a result due to an unrelated issue there side. Should this occur, services will fail over to redundant paths but users will experience a PPP reconnect.

An update will be posted tomorrow morning to confirm closure.

Emergency Works 30/03/2021

An engineer is on route to Telehouse to complete a reboot of our 2 London core devices. Works are due to start from 07:30am today. This will be done in succession pending a successful reboot of the first device and to allow services where possible to re-route across the network. Leased line circuits without backup will see disruption when the associated core reloads.

We do apologise for the short notice.

UPDATE01 – 07:35

This work is about to start

UPDATE02 – 08:30

This work is complete.

Broadband – 14:00 – 25/03/2021

We are seeing a number of broadband circuit’s dropping PPP and some intermittent packet loss. We are currently investigating.

UPDATE01 – 15:00

We have raised a case with our wholesale suppler and have moved traffic from Telehouse North to Telehouse East to see if this improves things.

UPDATE02 – 16:00

PPP reconnections have reduced but we are still seeing packet loss spikes to a large number of connections.

UPDATE03 – 18:00

We are still working with our wholesale supplier to understand the root cause of the issue as we have eliminated our network.

UPDATE04 – 22:00

We have chased our wholesale supplier for an update. Traffic remains via Telehouse East. The packet loss we are seeing does not seem to be service affecting at this stage but of course it should not be there.

UPDATE05 – 12:00 (26/03/2021)

We have dispatched an engineer to swap out optics on our side of the link.

UPDATE06 – 13:00

We have escalated this within wholesale as the problem remains. We do apologise for the inconvenience this is causing. We are still pending an optics swap as well.

UPDATE07 – 16:30

We have had a response from our wholesale suppler to advise additional resources have been added to our case. We are also still pending an optic swap from Telehouse.

UPDATE – 17:00

We have provided example cases of circuits where we are not seeing the same issue. We also believe this is only affecting a specific type of traffic.

UPDATE09 – 17:30

We have reached out to our hardware vendor to see if there is additional diagnostic tools can be provided. We apologise for the continued delay in getting this resolved.

UPDATE10 – 20:15

Optics have been changed at Telehouse North. Unfortunately the Telehouse engineer was not given an update from ourselves prior to starting the work which sadly resulted in traffic being dropped. We are continuing to monitor the interface.

UPDATE11 – 20:35 (29/03/2021)

We have observed some stability restore to the network over the past 72 hours. However we are still concerned there may be an issue on both London core devices caused by a Memory Leak and are working towards a maintenance window to eliminate this. Further details will be posted of the maintenance and times / impact as new “events / post” So they are clearly seen.

Broadband – 27/01/2021 – London 020

We are aware of a repeat Openreach fault from yesterday affecting broadband services within the 020 area code. We have raised this with our suppliers and awaiting an update.

UPDATE01 – 13:55

We have been advised the root cause has been found and a fix is being implemented.

UPDATE02 – 16:00

We have asked for an update from our supplier.

UPDATE03 – 17:10

We have been advised an update is not due before 19:00 We have gone back to advise this is unacceptable. Our service account manager at wholesale has stepped in to push Openreach for further details and a resolution time.

We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing.

UPDATE04 – 20:20

We have had updates provided from our wholesale supplier to advise while Openreach have not provided any firm ETA and raw fault detail. They believe the outage is being caused by an aggregated fibre node serving what they refer to as the Parent exchange and the secondary exchanges.

We are continuing to push for updates and proactively getting updates from wholesale now.

UPDATE05 – 02:30

We have been advised the fault has been resolved. We are awaiting an RFO and will publish once provided.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

04/01/2021 22:40 – Broadband Network

Our network monitoring has alerted us to one of our broadband LNS gateways reloading. This has resulted in broadband services connected via this device to disconnect and failover to alternative gateways.

The device has reloaded and returned to service. We are currently investigating the cause internally.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused but do not expect a recurrence.

Network Maintenance 19/10/2020

We will be making some changes to our network on the 19/10/2020 starting from 12:00 noon. These changes are in relation to our LINX peering and no impact is expected to be seen as traffic will be gracefully re-routed via alternative routes prior to work starting.

We will also be taking this opportunity to add additional hardware for future broadband capacity. This will also be non service affecting.

UPDATE 01 – FINAL – 16:50

This work is complete and LINX peering has been restored. No impact was seen to customer traffic.

14/10/2020 12:43– Leased Lines

We are aware of an issue affecting leased lines services delivered via Telehouse North. We are investigating as a matter of urgency. We sorry for any inconvenience being caused.

Services with backup DSL will have been automaticity re-routed.

UPDATE 01 – 12:50

Further investigations have shown this is affecting services delivered from our redundant fibre routes as well. We are continuing to work with our suppliers as the root cause has been identified outside of our network.

UPDATE 02 – 13:02

We are starting to see services recover but services should still be considered at risk.

UPDATE 03 – 14:00

We have had further feedback from our suppliers to advise this has been resolved and they believe this to have been down to a configuration issue there side. We have raised this as concern as this took down multiple fail over links for redundancy.

FINAL – 10:39

We have been advise this issue was cause by human error within our wholesale provider and the failure to follow strict guidelines when undertaking work. Due to the impact this had on ourselves and the loss of our redundant links with this provider, We are undertaking an internal review to ensure we mitigate against this in the future.

14/09/2020 22:00 – Broadband Network

Due to a unexpected reload of a broadband gateway on our network this afternoon, we are seeing a traffic imbalance on part of our broadband network.

We will be taking steps to disconnect sessions gratefully and re balance the affected gateways.

End users will see a PPP reconnect taking approximately 5-20 seconds. In the rare event your connection does not restore. You will need to power OFF and ON your router.

UPDATE01 – 22:10

This work is now complete.