Abilene Weekly Report  04/03/2006 through 04/09/2006
Abilene NOC at Indiana University

 

 

NEW CUSTOMERS				


	PEERING NETWORKS:		DATE CONNECTED

	CONNECTORS:			DATE CONNECTED

	PARTICIPANTS:			DATE CONNECTED

	SPONSORED PARTICIPANTS:		DATE CONNECTED		SPONSOR

	SEGP's: 			DATE CONNECTED		SPONSOR	


UPGRADES				DATE OF UPGRADE:	



ADDITIONS TO THE ABILENE NETWORK


	SERVICES

	OTHER
 

UNSCHEDULED OUTAGES - SHORT DESCRIPTION

None for this report period.

UNSCHEDULED OUTAGES - LONG DESCRIPTION
None for this report period.

 

SCHEDULED OUTAGES - SHORT DESCRIPTION


Issue Number Priority Title Maintenance Type Date Submitted

Project Name: Abilene    

8251
High
Backbone Circuit ATLA-HSTN Maintenance
Circuit
03/31/2006

8146
High
Backbone Circuit HSTN-LOSA Maintenance
Circuit
03/10/2006

8259
High
Backbone Circuit LOSA-SNVA Maintenance
Circuit
04/03/2006

8281
High
Backbone Circuit STTL-DNVR Emergency Maintenance
Circuit
04/07/2006

 

Count of Maintenance Type
Circuit 4
   
 

SCHEDULED OUTAGES - LONG DESCRIPTION
SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit ATLA-HSTN Maintenance
SCOPE:          Backbone Circuit ATLA-HSTN
CORE NODE:      ATLA, HSTN
START TIME:     Tuesday, April 04, 2006, 3:29 AM (0339) UTC
END TIME:       Tuesday, April 04, 2006, 3:49 AM (0349) UTC
		***Actual outage time during window was only 7 minutes.
DESCRIPTION:    During the above maintenance window, Qwest
                engineers will be performing hardware
                maintenance. Outages are possible during
                this maintenance. The whole maintenance
                window will be reserved.
AFFECTED:       None, traffic will reroute
TICKET NO.:     8251:2

SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit HSTN-LOSA Maintenance
SCOPE:          Backbone Circuit HSTN-LOSA
CORE NODE:      HSTN, LOSA
START TIME:     Tuesday, April 04, 2006,  10:51 AM (1051) UTC
END TIME:       Tuesday, April 04, 2006,  10:55 PM (1055) UTC
DESCRIPTION:    During the above maintenance window, Qwest
                will be rolling their circuit due to another
                maintenance happening at the same location.
                A 2-3 minute outage is expected, however
                the whole maintenance window will be reserved.
AFFECTED:       None, traffic will re-router
TICKET NO.:     8146:2

SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit LOSA-SNVA Maintenance
SCOPE:          Backbone Circuit LOSA-SNVA
CORE NODE:      LOSA, SNVA
START TIME:     Wednesday, April 05, 2006, 5:32 AM (0532) UTC
END TIME:       Wednesday, April 05, 2006, 6:00 AM (0600) UTC
DESCRIPTION:    During the above time frame, Qwest technicians
                will be performing circuit maintenance on the
                LOSA-SNVA circuit. A 10 to 15 minute outage
                is expect, however the entire window is reserved.
AFFECTED:       None, as traffic will re-route.
TICKET NO.:     8259:2

***No Outage Detected***
SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit DNVR-STTL Emergency Maintenance
SCOPE:          Backbone Circuit DNVR-STTL
CORE NODE:      DNVR, STTL
START TIME:     Friday, April 7, 2006,  9:00 PM (2100) UTC
END TIME:       Friday, April 7, 2006, 10:00 PM (2200) UTC
DESCRIPTION:    During the above maintenance window, Level 3
                will be performing emergency maintenance
                in DNVR to fix a hardware problem. An outage
                is possible during this maintenance.
AFFECTED:       None, as traffic will re-route
TICKET NO.:     8281:2

Abilene Connector/Peer Unavailable
Peer TENET was unavailable to the Abilene Community during entire report period (168 hours) due to TENET Engineers trouble-shooting 
connectivity problems most likely attributed to circuit issues.  Issue=8237:2

 
DOWNTIME TOTALS

Abilene Core Nodes

ATLA T640			00 min
ATLA-M5				00 min
CHIN T640			00 min
DNVR T640			00 min
HSTN T640			00 min
IPLS T640			00 min
KSCY T640			00 min
LOSA T640			00 min
NYCM T640			00 min
SNVA T640			00 min
STTL T640			00 min
WASH T640			00 min

Abilene Backbone Circuits

ATLA-IPLS OC-192		00 min
ATLA-HSTN OC-192		07 min
ATLA-WASH OC-192	        00 min
CHIN-IPLS OC-192		00 min
CHIN-NYCM OC-192		00 min
DNVR-KSCY OC-192		00 min
DNVR-SNVA OC-192		00 min
DNVR-STTL OC-192		00 min
HSTN-KSCY OC-192		00 min
HSTN-LOSA OC-192		04 min
IPLS-KSCY OC-192		00 min
LOSA-SNVA OC-192		28 min
NYCM-WASH OC-192		00 min
SNVA-STTL OC-192		00 min
52 WEEK CORE NODE AVAILABILITY
ATLA    99.99065%
CHIN    99.99962%
DNVR    99.99981%
HSTN    99.99981%
IPLS    99.99752%
KSCY    99.99981%
LOSA    99.99962%
NYCM    99.99981%
SNVA    99.99866%
STTL    99.99962%
WASH    99.99561%

Overall Abilene Availability: 99.99791%

OPEN TICKETS


Issue Number Title Ticket-Type Date Submitted

3435
Sponsored Participant / The Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU) / GB
Install
04/04/2003

4865
Sponsored Participant/Higgins Armory Museum/JPH
Install
03/02/2004

4899
Sponsored Participant / Boston Museum of Science / GCB
Install
03/09/2004

5446
New Sponsored Participant / The Montgomery County Community College
Install
07/06/2004

5447
New Sponsored Participant / The Montgomery County Intermediate Unit
Install
07/06/2004

5756
SP/Tampa General Hospital/leea
Install
09/23/2004

6065
Participant Northern Illinois Addition
Install
11/23/2004

6067
Sponsored Participant Georgetown Univ. (WHC & DC-DOH)/MAX
Install
11/23/2004

7203
Sponsored Participant/ Montana State University-Billings/Leea
Install
08/30/2005

7284
Participant Los Alamos National Laboratory
Install
09/16/2005

7899
Abilene Participation Agreement - City University of New York
Install
01/13/2006

7384
Sponsored Participant/ University of Maryland Baltimore Bio-Park/ cr
Install
09/29/2005

7365
Sponsored Participation - Delaware State University | Caroline
Install
09/27/2005

7757
Sponsored Participant/Montana State University-Great Falls & Montana State University-Northern
Install
12/08/2005

7954
Participant/ Ruth Lilly Health Education Center
Install
01/24/2006

7953
Participant / Inter-American Development Bank / JD
Install
01/24/2006

8278
Abilene Sponsored Participation - Methodist University Hospital of Memphis (inc'l) LeBonheur Children's Hospital
Install
04/06/2006

8262
Prefix addition for Boston University
Install
04/04/2006

8263
Prefix addition for Participant U Southern California
Install
04/04/2006

8277
Abilene Sponsored Participation - Georgia Aquarium
Install
04/06/2006

8282
Sponsored Participant Shenandoah University Install
Install
04/07/2006

8283
Sponsored Participant University of West Florida
Install
04/07/2006

6233
Footprints/CENIC RR Interaction
Problem
01/21/2005

7647
Request WiscREN Multicast Problem Assistance
Problem
11/16/2005

7144
Peer NASA-Ames (SNVA) Problem
Problem
08/18/2005

7072
Connector OneNet Intermittent Routing Problem
Problem
08/02/2005

7083
Connector PSC link errors
Problem
08/04/2005

8200
Peer GEANT Problem Inquiry
Problem
03/22/2006

7552
Peer ESnet Multicast Issue
Problem
11/02/2005

8188
msdp session between CUDI and ABILENE is down (Los Angeles)
Problem
03/20/2006

8084
Peer NREN Multicast Problem
Problem
02/27/2006

8169
v4 multicast problems from nms2-atla/observatory nets
Problem
03/15/2006

8128
problems with packets from Rochester & Abilene
Problem
03/07/2006

8134
Participant USC Latency Issue
Problem
03/08/2006

8186
Peer GEANT2 multicast leak problem
Problem
03/20/2006

8225
Illegitimate network advertisements from CERNET
Problem
03/28/2006

8264
DDOS attack Colleges of the Fenway
Problem
04/04/2006

8216
Connector University of Memphis Multicast Problem
Problem
03/24/2006

8249
Peer redCLARA (LOSA) Routing Issue
Problem
03/31/2006

5453
Alertmon License -- NoX
Request
07/07/2004

5809
Connector MAX Prefix Add Request
Request
10/08/2004

6800
Peer GEANT Multicast Inquiry
Request
06/10/2005

6689
Peer AARnet Routing Inquiry
Request
05/11/2005

7646
Peer NGIX West Prefix Modification
Request
11/16/2005

7129
SINET-NREN transit
Request
08/15/2005

7202
Sponsored Participant Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Addition/JRD
Request
08/30/2005

7374
Native IPv6 multicast connection to WIDE
Request
09/28/2005

8065
Connector NOX Prefix Request
Request
02/24/2006

7962
SingAREN Seattle AS7610 decommissioning
Request
01/25/2006

8270
Participant Univ. of Minnesota IPv6 Inquiry
Request
04/05/2006

7965
Peer GEANT Request
Request
01/26/2006

7467
Sponsored Participant/Emerson College/cscarver
Request
10/17/2005

7471
ipv6 multicast request from Eric Johnson
Request
10/18/2005

7892
Sponsored Participant / Montgomery College prefix addition
Request
01/12/2006

7482
Passive Measurement Gear
Request
10/20/2005

7594
Connector SOX Routing Request
Request
11/10/2005

7666
Peer CUDI IPv6 Inquiry
Request
11/19/2005

8037
BRUW Test on Abilene
Request
02/18/2006

8189
CSTNET Route Selection to Abilene through KREONet2
Request
03/20/2006

8205
Peer ESnet Request
Request
03/22/2006

8174
CUDI Multicast Routing Problem
Request
03/16/2006

8166
TAMU ITEC VPLS
Request
03/14/2006

8208
NREN-GEANT transit via Abilene
Request
03/23/2006

8218
Connector Great Plains Network Routing Inquiry
Request
03/24/2006

8257
HARNET IPv6 BGP Routing Issues
Request
04/03/2006

8274
Configure Loopback as TACACS Source-Address
Request
04/06/2006

8224
UniNet Network Access Problems
Request
03/28/2006

8236
TENET MTU Decrease
Request
03/29/2006

7925
Peer NISN (CHIN) Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
01/19/2006

8176
Connector Iowa State University Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/16/2006

8194
Peer APAN via JGN2 (CHIN) Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/21/2006

8207
Participant CERN Maintenance***Tracking***
Scheduled Maintenance
03/23/2006

8237
Peer TENET Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/29/2006

8242
Backbone Circuit ATLA-WASH Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/29/2006

8243
Backbone Circuit DNVR-SNVA Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/29/2006

8258
Backbone Circuit HSTN-LOSA Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/03/2006

8252
Peer CA*net 4 (CHIN) Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/31/2006

8253
Peer NISN (CHIN) Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
03/31/2006

8280
Peer APAN via JGN2 Circuit Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/07/2006

6693
Peer SURFnet (NYCM) OC-12 Circuit Outage
Unscheduled Outage
05/12/2005

7893
Connector MAX (Backup via NGIX-E) Outage
Unscheduled Outage
01/12/2006

 

Count of Ticket-Type
Install 22
Problem 17
Request 29
Scheduled Maintenance 11
Unscheduled Outage 2
   
 


CLOSED TICKETS


Issue Number Title Ticket-Type Last Edit Date

8275
Connector LAnet Provisional Prefix Request Approval
Install
04/06/2006

6884
High Amount of Multicast Prefixes being Sent to Level3
Problem
04/04/2006

7082
Backbone Circuit LOSA <-> SNVA errors
Problem
04/06/2006

8268
MSN Leaking Through Abilene?
Problem
04/05/2006

8269
Request for BGP peering Pacific Northwest GigaPoP
Request
04/05/2006

8276
Connector LAnet Prefix Addition
Request
04/06/2006

8266
Connector NOX Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/09/2006

8146
Backbone Circuit HSTN-LOSA Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/10/2006

8230
Backbone Circuit WASH - ATLA Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/07/2006

8251
Backbone Circuit ATLA-HSTN Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/10/2006

8259
Backbone Circuit LOSA-SNVA Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/10/2006

8281
Backbone Circuit STTL-DNVR Emergency Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/09/2006

8284
Connector UT-Austin Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/09/2006

8285
Peer CUDI (HSTN) Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/09/2006

8287
Peer KREONet2 Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance
04/09/2006

8260
Peer MCIT/ENERGI (Egypt) Instability
Unscheduled Outage
04/09/2006

8272
Peer DREN (STTL) Outage
Unscheduled Outage
04/09/2006

8273
Peer CA*net (CHIN) (Winnipeg) Outage
Unscheduled Outage
04/09/2006

8271
Connector Texas Tech Outage
Unscheduled Outage
04/09/2006

8286
Peer MCIT/ENERGI Outage
Unscheduled Outage
04/09/2006

 

Count of Ticket-Type
Install 1
Problem 3
Request 2
Scheduled Maintenance 9
Unscheduled Outage 5
   


UPCOMING EVENTS
SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit ATLA-WASH Maintenance
SCOPE:          ATLA-WASH OC-192
CORE NODE:      ATLA, WASH
START TIME:     Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 3:00 AM (0300) UTC
END TIME:       Thursday,  April 13, 2006, 9:00 AM (0900) UTC
DESCRIPTION:    During the above time frames, Qwest will be 
                performing a fiber relocation maintenance
                between Atlanta, GA, Gainesville, GA and Pleasant
                Hill and Berkley.
AFFECTED:       None As Traffic Will Re-Route.
TICKET NO.:     8242:2

SUBJECT:        Abilene Backbone Circuit DNVR-SNVA Maintenance
SCOPE:          Circuit DNVR-SNVA Maintenance
CORE NODE:      DNVR, SNVA
START TIME:     Tuesday,  April 18, 2006,  3:00 AM (0300) UTC
END TIME:       Thursday, April 20, 2006, 12:00 PM (1200) UTC
DESCRIPTION:    During the above time frame, Qwest will be
                relocating and splicing fibers between Reno
                and Hazen, NV which will affect the backbone
                circuit DNVR-SNVA for about 2-5 minutes while
                rolling.
AFFECTED:       None As Traffic Will Re-Route
TICKET NO.:     8243:2
 
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