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The ITS Network Team will continue work on the final stage of central network upgrades in W&L’s two data centers starting on Saturday, August 7th at 10:00 PM. The work is designed to enhance campus bandwidth, improve reliability through increased redundancy, and replace central equipment.
To minimize impact to the W&L community, ITS has scheduled the work during overnight hours. Please note that all campus network and internet connectivity will be impacted during the upgrade work. Campus users should plan for outages between 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM both Saturday and Sunday evening (Aug 7th & 8th).
The W&L Network Team will be upgrading the core network on campus over the next five weeks. This work will cause disruptions to network services. To minimize the impact to the W&L community, ITS has scheduled the work during overnight hours. The core network upgrade will address the following:
Bandwidth Improvements:
The core network backbone will be upgraded from 20GB/s to 100GB/s.
Network Redundancy:
New Equipment and services will be implemented to increase overall network redundancy throughout the W&L network.
Equipment Lifecycle:
The current core equipment is nearing the end of its life cycle and will soon no longer receive software and hardware support.
ITS will use the following upgrade schedule
July 8th (11:00 PM)
New routing instances will be introduced to support the network cutover. No network interruptions are expected.
Holekamp Cutover – July 9th (11:00 PM – 4:00 AM)
Holekamp will be cutover to the new network equipment. Intermittent/Brief campus-wide network disruptions can be expected during this time. Network outages will occur to the following locations for up to five hours:
Hillel
East Asian
Morris House
Lee House
Holekamp Hall
Huntley Hall
Simpson House
Graham Lee Cutover – July 10th (11:00 PM – 4:00 AM)
Graham Lee will be cutover to the new network equipment. Intermittent/Brief campus-wide network disruptions can be expected during this time. Network outages will occur to the following locations for up to five hours:
Baker Hall
Mattingly House
Gaines Hall
Graham Lee Dorm
Leyburn Aggregation (Leyburn Library)
Elrod Aggregation
Reid Hall
Sororities
DARC
Wilson Field
Parking Deck
Early Fielding
GL – Switch Room
Davis
Lewis Cutover – July 12th (11:00 PM – 4:00 AM)
Lewis will be cutover to the new network equipment. Intermittent/Brief campus-wide network disruptions can be expected during this time. Network outages will occur to the following locations for up to five hours:
Carrels
Facility Lounge
Deans IDF
Law Review
Powell IDF
Powell Mechanical
Tech Services
Classroom ABCD
Classroom EFG
Brief Stop
Science Cutover – July 14th (11:00 PM – 4:00 AM)
The Science Center will be cutover to the new network equipment. Intermittent/Brief campus-wide network disruptions can be expected during this time. Network outages will occur to the following locations for up to five hours:
All Science and Science Addition Buildings
Woods Creek Complex
Heating Plant
Public Safety
Reeves Ctr
Admissions
Alumni
Washington Hall
University Chapel
Development
Payne
Newcomb
Chavis
CGL
Tucker
Red Square Houses
July 28th 11:00 PM – July 29th 4:00 AM
- RAP and Wilson Data Center Cut (Part 1)
- All campus network connectivity will be intermittently impacted during this time.
July 29th 11:00 PM – July 30th 4:00 AM
- RAP and Wilson Data Center Cut (Part 2)
- Campus internet connectivity will be intermittently impacted during this time.
- Campus-wide network connectivity could be briefly impacted during this time.
