Level(3) currently down

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We weren't aware of the maintenance window that they were doing last night and it looks like they have overrun by several hours.

Currently we're running on Tiscali primarily but we've Cogent and Global Crossing to fall back onto if we have to. You'll probably see traffic going over Global Crossing as we added a GigE from them yesterday.

There are no issues currently that we can see as a result of Level(3) being down for us. We've more than adequate capacity elsewhere in the network to cover us.

Information:

Currently Blacknight have 4 x GigE connections to the outside world delivered in 2 diverse locations in Dublin.We've multiple wave lengths between both of these locations with secondary backup links where needed. Our network core is spread between these 2 data centres comprising of 12 Juniper routers using iBGP, eBGP, route reflector technology and OSPF in our core to provide the ultimate experience in network traffic flow. Additionally all our inter-datacentre layer 3 links run over resiliant layer 2 paths where we use RPVST for redundancy. We also use VRRP for all our customer facing traffic where there is no firewalling and where there is firewalling we use HA pairs of Cisco ASAs.

Lastly in adition to the above we've 1 x GigE connection to INEX and 1 x 100Meg connection to INEX which gives our Irish Users the experience of us being on their ISPs network. We are one of the few HSPs in Ireland who are directly peered with all Irish ISPs.