Change ID 441 Risk / Impact High Reason Backbone fibre provider will be repairing a damaged fibre cable Description / Impact Expected There will be no impact to customers as all traffic will be re-routed via an alternate path. Duration Micro switches under 50ms are expected during maintenance window Work […]
Yearly archives: 2017
What speeds can you really expect with your new 1Gbps circuit? Late last year ISPANZ published a paper briefly outlining their position and what performance you are likely to receive. Please have a look at it, I think they’re right. — Steve Ritchie. INTERNER SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND […]
About this time last year we wrote a blog piece about Chorus reviewing its financial security arrangements with retail service providers (RSPs) like DTS, and asking RSPs to pay twice their monthly spend with Chorus as a security. A year on, Chorus is still making this demand. Frankly, it’s ridiculous, […]
Change ID 439 Risk / Impact High Reason core switch upgrade Description / Impact Expected Citylink Ethernet services in Wellington area will be affected by this maintenance. Duration It is expected that there will be an outage of up to 10 minutes per service; followed by several sub 5 second […]
Change ID 435 Risk / Impact High Reason New BNG Wellington Deployment and Integration Description / Impact Expected DTS will activate new BNG(BRAS) in Wellington PoP and will backhaul PPPoE traffic for alll Wellington and Christchurch PPPoE customer to new BNG Wellington All customer will automatically reconnected to the new […]
DTS customers and other readers may be aware that our CEO Brendan Ritchie resigned in late November 2016 and has moved on to pursue other interests. As a result, Steve Ritchie and Colin South will be returning to the company full-time and will resume their original roles; Steve as Managing […]