Engineers will be performing maintenance on MBR01.DAL01 (Master Backend Router) in a continued effort to maintain router functionality, performance, and add additional feature sets. During this maintenance, Engineers will be augmenting the current MBR01.DAL01 router with a redundant pair. This maintenance is scheduled to start at 12:00 AM CST until 5:00 AM CST on March 6th, 2011 (3/6/2011). While no BCR routers on the private network are scheduled for maintenance, they will be directly impacted by this maintenance as private connectivity between BCR routers will be lost.

This maintenance will impact the following services:

- SoftLayer Customer Portal Access
- DNS Resolution
- OS Updates
- Security Updates
- NAS
- iSCSI
- eVault
- IPSEC VPN
- SSLVPN
- PPTPVPN
- IPMI Control
- Server Power Strip Control
- Server to Server Communication (Private Network)