Essential Maintenance Activity on the JX iDirect Network

Inmarsat will perform a number of maintenance activities across several ocean regions to optimise the resilience of the JX network after the introduction of the fourth JX ocean region and the subsequent increase on traffic.

These activities will cause all JX terminals to drop out of the network as detailed below:

Services affected: JX terminals

Outage Impact: The terminals will lose connectivity but will be automatically re-acquired into the network.

Actions needed by user: Re-start the terminal if it does not re-join the network

Date of outage: 03/04/2019

Activities: Re-configuration of Beams 27 and Beam 82. Upgrade of the link from Lino Lakes GX SAS to the New York Meet-Me-Point,

Ocean Region: AOR

Start of Maintenance period: 08:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period: 11:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Multiple, up to 3 minutes traffic interruptions.

Activity: SAS Failover from Auckland to Warkworth site

Ocean Region: POR

Start of Maintenance period: 18:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period: 21:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Single, up to 10 minutes traffic interruptions.

Activity: Enhance BGP communication within the iDirect system

Ocean Region: IOR, IOW,NER, WER

Start of Maintenance period: 21:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period: 23:59 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Multiple, up to 3 minute traffic interruptions.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience this activity may cause. Should you wish to discuss this matter further please do not hesitate to contact ARINCDirect Technical Support team either by email to adtech@arinc.com or via telephone at +1 410-266-2266 option 5.