Thursday, March 06, 2008

GEN3 failure

And so soon after the start of the service?

Hmmm, what does the SLA say about this? 99% uptime implies 1% downtime.

365 days x 24 hours x 1% = 87.60 hours down per year.

So they have loads of downtime left - bah humbug.

A quick estimation from the ML Sultan campus of DUT:


The interruption starts around 19h30 on the 5th of March, and lasts until about 09h30 on the 6th of March. That's 14 hours total. Ouch.

So we can look forward to another 73.6 hours of downtime. That's another 3 days left!

2 comments:

kuba jamro said...

but is all uct traffic going via the gen3 network now? or are the using both for extra bandwidth?

Al said...

I think the traffic is still going via GEN2 until the 20th of March (plucked from the uncommissioned orders page).

This appeared on [REN-news] yesterday:
TENET's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Alston, urgently needs to do a
BGP cleanup including reaggregation of routes, implementation of a route
reflector for the international routing, and various related tasks, most
of them consequent upon the ongoing work of migrating sites from the
GEN2 to GEN3 networks.


So it seems we'll be migrating soon.

ICTS is proudly proclaiming that even though they're spending the same amount, UCT will get ~34 Mbps instead of ~27 Mbps. So much for Moore's Law - more like Moer's Law.