Router / Network Down Time On 9/10/2005 between 1:00am ET and 2:00am ET

[admin]

On 9/10/2005 between 1:00am ET and 2:00am ET we will be upgrading our router. This should only cause 20 to 30  minutes of downtime during the switch-over to the new hardware. We would like to allow 1 hour of network downtime as we switch the hardware out and reconfigure the ports just to be safe.

Once the router is done it should speed things up quite a bit. The new routing hardware is 4x as fast as our current setup. This should also help speed things up and cut latency by a few milliseconds.


This upgrade will allow IGoSite to handle the occasional DDoS & ARP attacks that our customers undergo from time to time without affecting other clients on the network. This is one more step on our road to
provide the most stable and redundant network possible.


Tech head notes:
Our router 7206VXR
Our current Network Processing Engine is NPE-400
Our new Network Processing Engine NPE-G1 4 x as fast.

 

Tech Info link on new card and old card.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps341/products_data_sheet09186a0080116113.html

[nickodemon]

I would prefer it a few hours before scheduled time, but curent is OK.

Doing it 6 hours later would hit our working hours, so I'm against that.

[Radeon007]

For me, this is a good time for brief outages. I'm based in Norway and this converts to early saturday morning (if I'm correct when I ended up with this being 10th of September 05:00 UTC).

From the product details posted: The old router (NPE-400) has a speed of 400kbps while the new router (NPE-G1) is at 1mbps. Wouldn't this mean that the new router is about one and a half times as fast as the old one, or am I missing something here?

[admin]

No time is a good time guys, we can't make every one happy on this down time. But we will make it as short as we can.

CPU is also much faster, it will also let us get over the 200MB mark NPE-400 stops us at on our gige lines, we will now be able to go full gige with this upgrade. It can also take 1GB of ram where the NPE-400 could only take 512mb.

Its faster in more places then just CPU.

[admin]

As you may noticed is all done  :)
Just feel the power now  :)