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 Date/Time: Thursday night / Friday morning March 8th-9th - 23:00 - 01:00 2007

Customer Affecting: Yes

Services Affected: Network Connectivity

Overview: To facilitate the growth of our colocation facilities in DEG we need more ports in our core access layer. Currently there are 2 x 24 port switches currently connecting back to each equipment cabinet. There is a port from each switch into each cabinet and we use spanning tree to fail over in the event of a network failure at that layer.

We are putting in 2 x Cisco 2960G-48TS 48 port GigE switches to replace the current infrastructure and thus giving us more room to grow and increased bandwidth at this layer.

Expected Downtime: We expect the whole change over to take up-to an hour, we'll do all the preparatory work, racking and configuring the switches before hand. All we'll have to do is move the cabling to the new switches and do a lot of testing. So please expect connectivity to both the old and new networks to be intermittent during this window.