Network Overhaul: Major Optimisations to Core Network
Engineers are back on-site to continue works.
Thanks for your patience as we improve your experience.
Questions or concerns? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our crew.
Our engineers needed to take a break after a full long weekend of work. :-)
The final changes are scheduled to take place remotely this week.
From there, we’ll re-attend site this weekend for tidy-up.
Final testing of planned network interface failover automations is underway.
We’re on track to finish cutting over to the new switches & configs tonight - this is part-way done.
Many thanks for your patience this long weekend as we improve your service!
Network Engineering works continue. Thanks for your patience.
Interruptions to service during this Public Holiday should be brief.
Questions or concerns? Reach out to our crew for more information.
Cable Management work has now been completed within the rack-space.
Final item for this long weekend is the Network Engineering work.
That’ll continue through the night. Thanks for your patience!
All relocation works within the rack space have been completed.
Cable management & network engineering will take place over the weekend.
Many thanks for your patience as we continue improving your service with us.
Internet Radio clients are about to go offline, so we can perform some shuffling within the rack space.
We’ll also be adding more cable management, improving “race-ways” that branch cables out to gear.
Impact should be fairly brief. Any impact thereon should be minimal until work resumes tomorrow.
The 40G Dell Switches have been configured and stacked, and are now awaiting testing.
We’re now evaluating how much can be done from here, without the missing fibre bits.
The supplier has confirmed they will re-send on Monday. Thank you for your patience!
Hi there,
Following successful preparation works as well as research to determine the best ways forward with our Core Network in Sydney, we’ve now scheduled major optimisations and upgrades to be carried out.
This will involve some major works within AS138521:
- Relocating some equipment within the rack space
- Simplifying our IPv4 Network while improving SPOF resilience
- Performing major version upgrades on our Core WAN Routers
- Upgrading our Core Switches (HPE 1G/10G to Dell 10G/40G)
- Repurposing HPEs into OOB/Internal Switching (only)
- Overhauling our internal Virtual Private Network
- Re-running and labelling every single cable
While we will approach the works in a staggered manner, there will be impact to services during these works due to the major nature of the network re-engineering. The benefits from completing these works are great news for the resilience of your services moving forward, so we’re looking forward to completing them!
Note: Some of these works have been delayed, due to a supplier sending us the wrong order.
If you have any queries or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Cheers,
Merlot Digital
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