[nws-changes] 20100122: Network outage

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The **NCEP NCO CM Staff has been asked to share the following announcement with our customers and partners as it has a wide-enterprise impact. If you have any questions regarding this work, please contact one of the individuals listed at the end of the message. 


*Notification of Network Outage*
*_Brief Description_*: Committee for Operational Processing Centers (COPC) DATMS-U network upgrade
*_Full Description_*: The COPC DATMS-U network provides an operational path between NWS/NESDIS and AFWA/FNMOC/NAVO. This network is a DISA managed DoD network and NWS/NESDIS network access is via the NWS Telecommunication Operations Center (TOC) network. The DATMS-U component of the network will be upgraded from an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone to DoD’s Optical Transport Network (OTN) and will provide a bandwidth increase to the COPC Organizations.
*_Probable adverse impact_*: Change impacts NESDIS, NCEP, TOC, AFWA, FNMOC, NAVO with secondary impacts to customers of these Centers: 
- Pacific Region using COAMPS data
- FNMOC grids used by EMC for NAEFS and TPC
- NWS Monterey
- NATICE (National Ice Center)
*__*
*_Locations_*: NWS TOC, AFWA, FNMOC and NAVO

*_Priority_*: 1-High
*_Date_*: 02/03/2010 17-19Z. A backup date of 03/03/2010 17-19z has been coordinated in case of Critical Weather Day (CWD) or problems necessitating a back-out during the 02/03/2010 network upgrade. 

*_Contacts_*:
NWS(TOC) - Jacqueline.Lord@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Jacqueline.Lord@xxxxxxxx>
AFWA - charles.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:charles.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
harrisot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:harrisot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
scott.kenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:scott.kenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
FNMOC - sherryl.panek@xxxxxxxx <mailto:sherryl.panek@xxxxxxxx>
derek.eddington@xxxxxxxx <mailto:derek.eddington@xxxxxxxx>
NAVO - tracy.lepire@xxxxxxxx <mailto:tracy.lepire@xxxxxxxx>

DISA - kennith.wilson.ctr@xxxxxxxx <mailto:kennith.wilson.ctr@xxxxxxxx>
frank.kakos.ctr@xxxxxxxx <mailto:frank.kakos.ctr@xxxxxxxx>

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