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SIRO outage in the Kildare region

SIRO have reported that the outage in the Kildare area is now resolved.  (https://twitter.com/SIROIreland/status/1755972976950857773) The issue occurred due to excavation works by another party which required damaged fiber cables to be re-spliced this afternoon. We did not receive any notification of this maintenance work due to human error, however we have confirmed with the NOC […]

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Scheduled Storage Upgrade on Cloud1 infrastructure – Feb 14th 06:00 a.m.

We will be performing a scheduled upgrade of our Cloud storage platform with our partners NetApp, starting at 06:00 February 14th. NetApp have advised a maintenance window of 6 hours to allow for the consecutive upgrades of each individual node. The maintenance should be NON-service impacting however there may be a slight performance hit on […]

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Annual Network Operations Freeze Period

Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2023/2024 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 15th 2023 until  8:00 am Tuesday January 2nd 2024, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 08th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]

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