CHEBUCTO CONNECTIONS OPERATIONS REPORT

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ISP Transition Tales

ISP, for those that don't know, stands for Internet Service Provider. And (just in case you don't know), Chebucto has just changed ISPs from NSTN Inc. to Internet Services and Information Systems (isis). At the same time, we removed our dependence on the Dalhousie network. Chebucto now has its own network numbers - one for Chebucto itself and one for the Cable/ISDN network supplying some of our public access terminals (PATs). The public information on the awarding of the contract to isis comes from the Evaluation Committee.

And then the fun began - implementation. We installed a T1 link to get high speed service from isis - which included new routers on both ends. And then the IP numbers arrived late so we had to temporarily use an isis number. And the T1 didn't work properly the first time. And US traffic was getting blocked for some mysterious reason in Toronto. And Internet routing tables (the data files that tell one computer how to find another one on the Internet) had to be updated on thousands of routers that weld together the fabric of the Internet.

Outstanding efforts by Baha Baydar and Gary Bowdridge of isis, Ralph Zinck of MT&T, John Sherwood of Dalhousie Information Services and Trent MacDougall and David Trueman of Dalhousie Computing kept the downtime to a minimum (four hours was the longest disruption). We had some bumps, some with the technology and some with getting everything running smoothly again. As usual, we're working on it.

Coming Up Next

This month I'm introducing a new feature of this Newsletter article. It will focus on introducing the next service implementation or upgrade on Chebucto. A good place to talk about it is the CCN User Interface mailing list.

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