After a network switch failure affecting part of our Sydney network in January, we’re starting to deploy a new network topology and equipment in Sydney from mid February 2016.
The first phase of this is to replace the switch which was put in-place of the originally failed switch in mid January, as unfortunately the switch we initially put online in January as the immediately replacement in our Sydney network, has proven to be unable to process our network traffic at all times (aka “can’t keep up all the time”/has no headroom).
This Network Upgrade Phase 1 occurs on Feb 10th/11th next week and then Phase 2 (a Data Centre “Core” network based on Brocade switch stacks) will be installed from March 2016 and that will provide us with many 10Gbit ethernet ‘downlinks’ to VPS hosting servers, increasing general network capabilities as we grow and scale in 2016.
FYI and sorry about the network problems in January 2016 that affected some (~1/3) customers, but like a phoenix we’re going to emerge quickly from this with a much better network all round, regards,
Richard.