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Network Maintenance Advisory - Sunday, September 28th, 2008 - 6AM-8AM EST WINDOW

Our Network Engineering will be performing maintenance in our Scranton facility during the hours of 6AM and 8AM EST on Sunday, September 28th, 2008. At this time, Our Network Engineering will be performing a significant upgrade/replacement of our existing network infrastructure. This upgrade will involve removing/replacing our older/out-dated core Cisco™ GSR & Extreme Summit™ routing/switching equipment, with newer state-of-the-art Cisco™ 6500-series routing/switching equipment, and implementing a new network design---allowing for easier upgrade, higher fault-tolerance, additional capacity, and extra redundancy.

This maintenance will be service affecting, however, we expect the overall network downtime to be 15-30 minutes, during the 2-hour maintenance window...as equipment, cabling, and routes are changed. There will also be momentary periods of higher than normal latency while circuits are re-routed, BGP updated/reloaded, and cabling switched, during the 2-hour maintenance window. Proper planning, configuration, and testing has been completed in advance of this maintenance period, in order to minimize as much as possible the overall time that will be service affecting.

We thank you for your patience and understanding with this necessary maintenance, as well as for your continued business!

Note: this will only affects these servers: from server6 to server 14. Other servers will work without interruptions.