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Darien Caldwell
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07-21-2009 12:25
If you go to the grid status page, and look at the calendar of events, there are 3 entries called: 'AboveNet Notification - 20090710-101'

http://status.secondlifegrid.net/

They read:

From: someone
AboveNet Notification - 20090710-101
When: Tue, July 28, 12am – 3am
Where: Houston, TX (map)
Description: Dear AboveNet Valued Customer; AboveNet would like to notify you of a Maintenance Activity on our network that will impact your service, please acknowledge via electronic response, and include your ticket number if applicable. AboveNet will make every effort to ensure the downtime will be minimized.

The event details are as follow:
AboveNet Ticket Number: 20090710-101
Event Type: Scheduled Event
Description: Roll traffic back to original position
Event Location: Houston, TX
Service Affecting: Yes
1st Date & Time: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 03:00 CDT
2nd Date & Time (Backup): N/A
Event Duration: 3 Hours
Expected Down Time: Up to 1 Hour
Circuit(s) & Endpoints: 192-20998-0002 PHX-DAL 2121 S Pride Rd, Chandler, AZ 400 S Akard St, Dallas, TX
Please notify AboveNet immediately if you wish to change/update the contact information. The AboveNet NMC will notify the Customer’s Operation Center or Point of Contact prior to work start, and upon completion of maintenance. Should you have questions, concerns regarding this maintenance, please reply to this notice or contact the AboveNet NMC.

Best regards, AboveNet, NMC


There's also one for Aug 1st and Aug 2nd which are 7 hours long and affect Los Angeles and San Jose.

So what exactly does this mean? Is this something to do with the Texas datacenter going down? :confused:
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LittleMe Jewell
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07-21-2009 12:39
From looking up the company, it sounds like they are the ones that provide LL with their connections. So, if LL does not have their redundancy set up correctly, SL (or part of SL) will be affected/
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07-21-2009 12:43
From: someone
and include your ticket number if applicable

LOL - The Irony... LL having to deal with someone elses ticket system :D
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07-21-2009 12:51
From: LittleMe Jewell
From looking up the company, it sounds like they are the ones that provide LL with their connections. /

Yep. I think they booted level3 for abovenet a few months ago. It's been showing up in my tracerts for a while now... Or maybe they're using both.
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Darien Caldwell
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07-21-2009 13:34
Hmm, thanks. I guess we'll see how things go down during these times. :)
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