Author Archive | Ronan Daly

We are scheduling six maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Dublin. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during each maintenance window as the network re-converges. Services in the relevant data centre should be […]

We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Interxion DUB1. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. While no customer impact is anticipated, services in Interxion DUB1 should be considered at risk during these maintenance windows. Date: 2017-01-05 23:00 – 2017-01-06 04:00 UTC Data […]

Blacknight are members of five European Internet Exchanges, including INEX in Dublin. INEX carries a significant percentage of traffic between ISPs in Ireland. Due to the continued increase of peering, INEX needs to increase the number of IPv4 addresses available on the primary peering LAN. To accomplish this, all peering members will be required to […]

We are scheduling a maintenance window to inspect a core link between BT Citywest and Equinix DB2. Traffic will be migrated to alternate links during this maintenance window. While no customer impact is anticipated, services in BT Citywest should be considered at risk during this maintenance window. Date: 2016-10-13 10:00 – 2016-10-13 16:00 UTC Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: […]