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This Sunday morning during our maintenance window of 6 am until 10 am we will be upgrading a number of network switches that provide connectivity to buildings throughout the Middlebury campus.  There will be about a 15 minute interruption of network access as each network switch is upgraded.

The affected locations are:

220 College St

30 College St

70 Hillcrest

75 Franklin

Arabic House

Athletics

Atwater

Battell

BiHall (this building will be completed before 7:30 am)

Bowker Barn

Centeno

Chateau

Chellis

Coffin

Cousteau

Deanery

DKE

Earhart

FIC

Gifford

Hepburn

Kelly-Lang

Kitchel

McKinley House

Mill

Milliken-Hadley

Monroe

Painter

Palmer

Pearsons

Portuguese House

Public Safety (this building will be completed before 7:30 am)

Shannon St

Starr

Stewart

Sunderland

Voter

Wright

Youngman Field

This Sunday morning during our maintenance window between 6 am 10 am we will be upgrading network switches that provide network connectivity to the following locations on the Middlebury campus.  There will be an approximately 15 minute interruption of network services at each location as each switch is upgraded.  Thank you for your patience as we perform this essential proactive maintenance.

Best regards,

Jim Stuart

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Painter-House

Marbleworks

204-CollegeSt

FIC

Sunderland-Attic

Russian

Emma-Willard

Adirondack

Old-Chapel

108-South-Main

Walleye

Bread Loaf (all)

Snowbowl

LIS-Lib125-Imaging

McCullough

Mead

Hillcrest

Warner

Warner-Basement

Voter 1^st floor

Sunderland

Centenno

Youngman-Field

McKinley-House

The following essential network maintenance activity is planned for this Sunday morning that will result in extended service interruptions throughout the campus.

Between  6:30 and 7:15 am the network core’s components will be upgraded.  While all of the components of the network core are redundant, not all parts of the network throughout the campus have a path back to both sides of the network core.  As a result there will be a 20 – 30 minute network service interruption for the majority of buildings on campus.

Between 7:00 and 8:15 am critical network aggregation switches that connect campus buildings and server farms to the network core will be upgraded.  This will result in a complete interruption of network connectivity of approximately 30 minutes throughout the campus.  This includes access to the College’s primary web sites, Email, MiddFiles – all systems hosted at Middlebury.

Between 7:45 and 9:00 am our border gateway routers and other components that connect the network core with the Internet will be upgraded.  We expect four 3-5 minute periods where Internet routing will be in flux and expect transient loss of Internet connectivity for the Middlebury campus.  During these four 3-5 minute periods, the VPNs with MIIS and Ellucian may be interrupted briefly, this would impact reaching Banner SSB and INB.

These network upgrades are essential and must be completed in a timely manner.  We appreciate your patience as we strive to keep our network operating optimally.

The Wiley Online Library is non-functional for us and for other libraries around the country. There has not been any official notification from Wiley, so I cannot predict when access will be restored. When I know more, I will add an update in a comment to this post.