WestGrid Network to silo and grex is down

Due to a route issue at U. Sask, WestGrid network to USask (silo/hopper) and U. Manitoba (grex) is currently down.

Cybera network maintenance at Calgary Aug.6

Cybera has scheduled a maintenance outage for Calgary. During the outage WG systems at UofC (parallel, lattice, breezy) will be out of contact (jobs will still run).

Cybera Scheduled Maintenance Notification:

Subject:             Cybera scheduled maintenance

Category:          Software upgrade on the core router in both Lethbridge and Calgary

Start Time:          2015-08-06  21:00  Local time.  (Thursday)

End Time:           2015-08-06  24:00

During the time frame indicated above, we will be performing maintenance on the Lethbridge core router and, immediately after on the Calgary core router at the University of Calgary. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the reserved maintenance window and could include several small durations outages while maintenance is being done. Expected down time is approximately 30 Minutes.

1) Lethbridge ( starting at: 21:00 ) - All members connected directly into the Lethbridge router will be affected, including:

• University of Lethbridge
• City of Lethbridge
• Lethbridge Community College
• Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada - Lethbride Research Centre.
• Statistic Canada lab at University of Lethbridge. (RDC)
• Blackbridge

2) Calgary (Starting immediately after the Lethbridge upgrade - at or around 22:00) - All members that are directly connected to the Calgary router, all members using IBG or accessing any Cybera services over Supernet will be affected during this scheduled maintenance window.

While the entire maintenance window is reserved, we anticipate actual downtime to be approximately 30 Minutes.

BCNet VANTX Maintenance June 30, 2015

From:         06:00 PST Tuesday June 30, 2015
To:              07:00 PST Tuesday June 30, 2015

Reason:     BCNET is conducting maintenance on one of the VANTX
                    primary routers to replace a failing line card.

Effects:     The following services and customer links in Vancouver will
                    be impacted for up to 30 minutes during the maintenance
                    window.
                    All other network services, such as Internet Transit, Peering,
                    Access to the Research Network, and services at other
                    Exchanges will not be affected.

                         .....
                          UVic – LHCONE service
                          WestGrid – IX and ORAN services