*Maintenance Alert* - August 6, 2024 between 09:00 and 13:00, MERLIN will be performing a hardware upgrade on networking equipment at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. See email notice for more details.

We are currently experiencing intermittent connectivity issues and we are investigating to identify the cause

A routing issue on one of our upstream provider networks was identified. We have disabled communication with them while they investigate. MRnet and MERLIN client connectivity issues should be resolved.

*Maint Alert* - August 14, 2024 between 02:00 and 06:00, Valley Fiber will be doing a hardware upgrade at 355 Portage. This will affect all customers currently connected from that location. See email notice for more details.

*Maint Alert* - Aug 27+28, 2024 00:00-06:00, BellMTS will be performing network maintenance affecting some clients. See email for more details.

*Maintenance Alert* - October 25, 2024 (Fri.) between 17:00 and 21:00, MERLIN will be performing core network maintenance. Some very small disruptions are expected, see email for details.

*Maintenance Alert* - November 4, 2024 (Mon.) between 17:00 and 20:00, MERLIN will be performing Hosted Firewall upgrade. No service disruption is expected, please see email for more details.

We experienced a brief, unexpected outage that would have affected some of our hosted services, including our public DNS servers. We are investigating the cause. If you’re still experiencing issues, please contact MERLIN NOC.

*Maintenance Reminder* - October 25, 2024 (today) between 17:00 and 21:00, MERLIN will be performing core network maintenance. Some very small disruptions are expected, see email for details.

*Urgent Maintenance Advisory* - November 18th, 2024 between 17:30 and 18:00, MERLIN will be performing urgent maintenance to our Hosted Services firewall. Please see email for more information.

*Urgent Maintenance Advisory* - November 18th, 2024 between 18:00 and 21:00, MERLIN will be performing urgent maintenance to our Hosted firewall. There will be limited access to Panorama Management but no service disruption is expected. Please see email for more information.

We are currently experiencing an unexpected fault on our primary firewall. All services have been transferred to our secondary unit. Please see email alert for more details.

We are investigating intermittent outages for all clients connected via MERLIN’s PoP @ Brandon University. See email message for additional information.

*Planned Outage* - January 15th @ 10:30pm. Westman customers connected via MERLIN’s PoP @ Brandon University will experience an outage of up to 15 minutes. Please see email for more information.