On Saturday, January 31st during our maintenance window we will be making two changes to our upstream network.

The first change will be to modify our BGP configuration to allow traffic to route to its natural destinations. This is a preliminary step to enable us to better manage our traffic. We will be fine tuning this over the next month or so. Stay tuned for more updates as this progresses. This change will cause no more than traffic re-routes. The only impact of this will be any permanent connections (such as VPN tunnels) going down temporarily if their route changes.

The second change will be to move the layer 2 connection for one of our upstreams to a new provider. During the change our BGP session with this upstream will be down. Our other upstreams will handle all of our traffic during this change. There will be traffic re-routes when the BGP session goes down and when it comes back up again. This also will cause any permanent connections to drop briefly.

Both of these changes will occur between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am.