SCS Network Service Outage

Subject: Service Outage: Network outage on March 26, 2005

The following announcement is made by SCS Computing Facilities:

On Saturday March 26th, a network outage will affect the entire SCS network including:

• SCS network connectivity to local machines and services
• SCS network connectivity to Andrew
• SCS network connectivity to the Internet and Research networks

TIME OF EVENT: 3:30 a.m. EST - 6:30 a.m. EST

AREAS AFFECTED: All areas of SCS network

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

An upgrade of the SCS core switch/router will be performed. We expect to have network connectivity available early in the maintenance time period. However, network connectivity may be unstable during the entire scheduled maintenance window.

CONTACT:

Please contact the SCS Help Desk at x8-4231 or send mail to help+@cs.cmu.edu with any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your attention,

SCS Help Desk