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Outage in Birmingham and surrounding areas

11:14 BT have confirmed they have changed a line card within the hub, this issue should now be resolved. We ask that DSL customers power off their routers for 10 min and then back on. Ethernet customer should not need to do anything any further issues please log a ticket to https://support.node4.co.uk/ support@node4.co.uk Again we [...]

Planned Maintenance – n4Cloud Northampton 11th June

UPDATE 02:45 - Work has completed without any issues or outages. . UPDATE 01:00 - Work has begun.  If any disruption in service is experienced please contact Node4 using the normal Gold Support process. . UPDATE 00:26 – Work due to start as scheduled at 01:00 . Background In an effort to consolidate services that Node4 offer [...]

New Node4 DNS Servers

Two new DNS servers are now available to customers on the Node4 network. These servers support both IPv4 & IPv6 – they will REPLACE the existing servers. The existing DNS servers will be decommissioned on Friday 13th January 2012 therefore you must update your equipment configurations to use the new servers before this date Old [...]

21CN Network Upgrades Affecting BT IP Stream DSL Customers

We would like to advise you of the upcoming 21CN (21st Century Network) upgrade works which will be affecting customers BT IP Stream DSL connections over the coming weeks and months.   The work is required to allow DSL customers to benefit from developments in next generation technologies including higher bandwidth speeds.   Whilst we [...]

Global Cooling

Continuing the Green theme from the last post, I’d like to explain a bit about how our new air conditioning system gives us the best possible combination of performance, resilience, economy and flexibility. Our Wakefield site makes use of a technology called free cooling. Well it’s not quite free (these things cost hundreds of thousands [...]

A Decade As A CCIE

By Chris Pagel, Network Services Manager Being a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert can actually be a burden. why? Well there’s a perception that CCIE’s know everything about everything and can answer any question thrown at them. Well I’ve been a CCIE for almost ten years now and I still don’t know everything and I never [...]

Virtual Reality

By Paul Bryce, Business Development Director, Node4 No, this is not a blog post about virtual gaming or how to make money out of the virtual world of second life, it’s about how virtualisation of servers and applications is fast becoming a reality and with increased focus on economic and environmental issues, it’s probably worth checking it [...]

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