CERN Accelerating science

Sudden increase of HTAR traffic is overloading access to Geant (R&E network in Europe)

 
Date & time of incident: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 17:28
Incident Description: 

Since the 14th of February, data transfers from CERN to European sites (not Tier1s) have been steadily increasing. At 16:30 today 15th February, this traffic has saturated the Swiss access to Geant, the European backbone that serves Research and Education institutes in Europe. The capacity of the Swiss access is 20Gbps.

 

 

Service Element Affected: 
Multiple Services
Specific Service detail: 
Data transfer to European sites
Impact: 
Service is degraded
Status: 
Resolved
Resolution date: 
Thu, Feb 16, 07:00
Posted by: 
IT-CS
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department