NLA Service Announcement 24-09-07

Our Cisco PIX firewalls, which sit between our front and back end networks, will be replaced, with Cisco ASA firewalls, on Thursday 4th October 2007 at 19:00. The PIX devices are currently the only part of our data centre infrastructure which operate at 100Mbps, while all other devices operate at 1000Mbps. The upgrade will provide 10 times the throughput between our web/FTP servers and the rest of our network.

If all goes according to plan, we expect no more than a 15 minute outage. The outage will affect eClips and ClipShare web services and all FTP services (publisher and client).

This work is scheduled maintenance and is taking place outside a Peak Period as required in the licence.

Please let us know if you have any questions.