[M5Hosting] Planned Maintenance Events

[Michael J McCafferty]

Dear Happy M5 Customer,

         M5's Colocation facility is upgrading it's core routers over the 
next week. The current Cisco 7500 routers will be replaced with Cisco GSR 
12000 series routers. This is a fantastic upgrade. The 12000 series routers 
are Cisco's highest performing units, and are often affectionately called 
the "BFR 12000" (Big Freakin' Router) due to it's imposing size (72" tall, 
390lbs) and extreme performance. They are scalable to over a TERABIT per 
second each. Soon, your packets will flow through a redundant pair of these 
units, serving to improve what is already one of the fastest and lowest 
latency networks on the West Coast.

         The first maintenance period will be between 2:00am and 3:00am on 
4/8/04. During this time, there may be some periods of sub-optimal routing 
while operating on just one core router and routing between Qwest, Level3, 
and UUNet. Loss of connectivity is not expected.

         The second maintenance period will be between 1:00am and 2:00am on 
4/13/04.  During this time, there may be some periods of sub-optimal 
routing while operating on just one core router and routing between Verio 
and XO during this time. Loss of connectivity is not expected.

         The last planned outage was 88 days ago for a kernel upgrade, 
which required a reboot of the hosting servers. There have been no 
unplanned outages since that time.

Thank you !
Mike


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Michael J. McCafferty
Principal, Security Engineer
M5 Computer Security
858-576-7325 Voice
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