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Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2025/2026 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 12th 2025 until at 8:00 am Monday, January 5th, 2026, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 6th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]

We are scheduling a maintenance window to move a core router in Equinix DB2 to a new rack. This is an at risk notification only. Date: 2025-10-18 08:00 – 18:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Equinix DB2 Impact: Reduced Capacity – At risk only

We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate a core fibre pair, connecting BT Citywest and Digital Realty DUB2, to new structured cabling in DUB2. This work is required to improve light levels on a 400G metro circuit connecting these locations. Blacknight maintain several diverse fibre paths into both locations, so no impact is anticipated. […]

We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade our access routers in Blacknight Carlow. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during these maintenance windows as the network re-converges. Date: 2025-09-13 18:00 – 2025-09-13 20:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Blacknight Carlow Router: acc-r01.bk0 Impact: Reduced capacity   Date: 2025-09-13 20:00 – […]