[nws-changes] 20080118: data outage

On Wednesday Jan 23 at 10:00am EST (15:00UTC), DISA will upgrade the DATMS-U link at the NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG Washington, DC).
A window of 2hr is scheduled for the upgrade, but we expect the actual downtime will be less. 

_*Affected Traffic:
*_
The three DATMS-U circuits will be migrated separately in the order listed below. An outage is expected for each migration Additional time is required to verify that connectivity is established before proceeding to the next migration. 
         Offutt/AFWA
         Monterey/FNMOC
         Stennis/NAVO

The traffic between the following locations will be affected:
         DATMS-U and NESDIS
         DATMS-U and NatIce
         DATMS-U and NWSTG servers


_*Critical Weather:*_

If the scheduled date is designated a Critical Weather Day, the outage
may be postponed.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this outage may cause.  Please
contact me if the timing of this outage presents a critical problem for
your operations.

Please forward this message to anyone who will be affected by this
action but was left off the mailing list.  I would appreciate if you
would send me the email address of anyone that should be informed of
scheduled downtime in the future, but was not included in the current
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Jackie Lord

Ph:       301-713-1878 x 126
Email:    jacqueline.lord@xxxxxxxx