CS Network Downtime, Thu, December 19, 2013, 06:30-08:30
This is a reschedule of the secondary tasks of an outage originally scheduled for November 27, 2013, and cancelled due to unscheduled and unrelated problems.
Who is affected:
All users of CS Department wired networks, including network users in the CS Building, 221 Nassau St., Sherrerd Hall, Friend Center, and 151 Forrestal Road (the HPCRC).
This outage will also affect the OIT wireless network ONLY in the CS Building.
Actual outages are expected to be much shorter than the full window, but outages local to any particular location will occur at various times throughout the window for 5 to 10 minutes at a time.
What is happening:
During this time, several network switches will be updated to newer versions of their operating systems.
Why is it happening:
The switch software updates will address a few minor bugs which have come up lately, including performance-limiting bugs.
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