On Thursday June 25, 2009 beginning at 5:20 a.m., we will be replacing a key router that connects the University of Montana network to the outside world. This will affect all University of Montana locations (including all dorms, Montana Tech, UM-Western, Helena COT, all Missoula locations, etc.). There will be no access to or from the Internet, to or from the Internet2, to or from the Montana State Government, or any entity not located at UM during the router replacement.
This will not affect communication between or within different UM locations with the exception of Lubrecht Forest and the Montana Tech people located in Billings. Those 2 locations will lose all their network connectivity during this time. External VPN connections will also be broken during this time. On campus Banner access (which includes CyberBear) will not be affected.
We expect the router replacement to take no longer than 40 minutes, with main communications reestablished after about 15 minutes.
This change is necessary to prepare the University Network for new higher capacity connections which should be available later this year.
Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation.
