Past Incidents

• Event : Core Router Software Upgrade

• Schedule : May 26, 2023 (Friday) | 2:00 AM to 5:00 AM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our Service Provider will conduct an emergency maintenance activity on May 26, 2023. This activity aims to upgrade the software of their Core Aggregation Router and provide increase service availability and internet quality.

During the maintenance window, a maximum of 30 minutes downtime on the affected circuit uplink is expected, but due to the way our network is setup a partial to no impact on network and internet connectivity may experience as we have another circuit uplink available as backup.

• Service Impact : Partial impact on Network and Internet Connectivity – All Sites

• Status: Completed

• Event : Router Software Upgrade

• Schedule : May 21, 2023 (Sunday) | 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our service provider will be upgrading the software on one of their core route to its latest version.

During the maintenance window, a maximum of one (1) hour network interruption on the affected circuit uplinks for the said sites above is expected but due to the way our network is setup a partial to no impact on network and internet connectivity may experience as we have another circuit uplinks is available for backup.

Apologies for the inconvenience that it might cause.

Thank you for your understanding.

• Service Impact : Partial impact on Network and Internet connectivity at NTB, PNB, BET and IBM Site

• Event : Third-Party Network Provider Maintenance

• Schedule :

Primary Schedule: May 20, 2023 (Saturday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM (PH Time) - Cancelled Back up Schedule: May 28, 2023 (Sunday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM (PH Time) - Cancelled

Day 1 Schedule: Primary Schedule: June 10, 2023 (Saturday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM – New schedule Back up Schedule: June 17, 2023 (Saturday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM

Day 2 Schedule: Primary Schedule: July 1, 2023 (Saturday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM – New schedule Back up Schedule: July 8, 2023 (Saturday) | 12:00AM to 6:00AM

• Activity Details :

One of our Data Center will perform a scheduled maintenance on May 20, 2023. This activity aims to create span protection between San Juan - Ermita segments that will establish fiber resiliency and provide with a more stable link and reliable network connection.

• Service Impact : Slightly Increased Latency on one Data Center Link - St. Francis Square Office

• Status: Completed

• Event : BICS 3rd Party Essential Maintenance

• Schedule : May 17, 2023 (Wednesday) | 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PHT) - Completed

• Activity Details : Our service provider has been successfully completed this maintenance activity.

• Service Impact : Latency Increase on TIM IPLC to UK Connectivity

• Event : BICS 3rd Party Essential Maintenance

• Schedule : May 17, 2023 (Wednesday) | 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our ISP’s supplier(BICS) will be performing essential maintenance in order to relocate fibre because of the construction of the tramway at Rue Salengro, in Marseille.

• Service Impact : Latency Increase on TIM IPLC to UK Connectivity

• Event : BICS 3rd Party Essential Maintenance

• Schedule : May 16, 2023 (Tuesday) | 6:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our ISP’s supplier(BICS) are seeing a high span loss on the link between Paris and Marseille. BICS have isolate the problem between Montpelier and Pichu. Based on out in-service OTDR test BICS have located the issue in Montepelier. The goal of this maintenance is to investigate and solve this high span loss together with the fiber supplier and the equipment vendor on site in the data center of Montpelier.

• Service Impact :Latency Increase on TIM IPLC to UK Connectivity

• Status: Completed

• Event : Repairing of Cable Faults

• Schedule : May 12, 2023 (Friday) | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our service provider will be repairing cable faults for the normalization of their route for their Philippines clients.

During the maintenance window, there will be a 50ms increase on network and NCP VPC’s connectivity.

Apologies for the inconvenience that it might cause.

Thank you for your understanding.

• Service Impact : Latency increases in NCP IPLC Connectivity

• Status: Successfully completed

• Event : Repairing of Cable Faults

• Schedule : May 12, 2023 (Friday) | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PHT)

• Activity Details : One of our service provider will be repairing cable faults for the normalization of their route for their Philippines clients. During the maintenance window, users should expect a slight increase in latency when connecting to the internet and their web-based tools. Please note as well that our secondary internet uplink will not be affected and will be operational as usual during this time.

Apologies for the inconvenience that it might cause.

Thank you for your understanding.

• Service Impact : Increase in latency on network and internet connectivity – All Sites

• Status: Successfully completed

• Event : Unplanned IPLC Connectivity Outage

• Schedule : May 11, 2023 (Wednesday) | 11:55 PM – Ongoing (PH Time)

• Activity Details :

We have observed that the IPLC is currently down, we are coordinating with our ISP to check the issue. Will provide updates accordingly.

• Service Impact : VPC Latency

• Status: Resolved, waiting for updates from Service Provider for Incident Report. Monitoring for stability.

• Event : Network Provider Instability

• Schedule : May 09, 2023 (Tuesday) | 11:41 AM (PHT) – For closely monitoring

• Activity Details : We have monitored that the affected circuit has been stable for thirty (30) minutes now and we are closely monitoring its consistency while waiting from our service provider’s further investigations.

• Service Impact : Partial Impact to Onsite and Work From Home Users

• Status: Stable

• Event : Network Provider Instability

• Schedule : May 09, 2023 (Tuesday) | 11:41 AM (PHT) - Ongoing

• Activity Details : We have observed that one of our direct internet connections is experiencing intermittency that may cause access to the internet and webtools to be unstable. This may have impact to users working from home causing disconnections from the EMAPTA VPN. Onsite users are similarly affected which may have caused disconnections from the internet and remote tools that are utilizing this particular gateway.

Another uplink at our Data Center is still operational and traffic will automatically re-route to this circuit in case of repeat instances.

This has been escalated to our provider for their investigation and immediate resolution. Updates will be provided as we receive them.

• Service Impact : Partial Impact to Onsite and Work From Home Users

[May 08, 2023 | 1:46pm] • Details : Our third-party provider has performed a permanent change on our circuit that has restored connectivity.

[May 08, 2023 | 9:10am] • Details : One of third-party network providers is experiencing network issues and are currently investigating. Our other internet uplink is still operational and traffic will be automatically transferred in case of network drops. • Service Impact : Partial impact of EMAPTA offices.

[May 09, 2023 | 4:26pm] • Details : One of third-party network providers has performed an emergency activity to mitigate software bug that is impacting traffic to some destination • Service Impact : Partial impact on internet uplinks.

[May 4, 2023 | 1:09PM] • Event : Third-party Network Provider Outage

• Details : One of our links going to our Datacenter is experiencing an outage. No impact is expected as another uplink is operational.

• Service Impact : Partial Outage to internet and network connectivity.

RFO: Restored underground fiber cut.