Historic Calgary flood forced early migration to new MPLS network
Officials for Calgary, Alberta, had only hours last summer to migrate the city's mission-critical network to a new multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network, thanks to the largest flood in the city’s modern history last summer that threatened catastrophic network failure.
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Historic Calgary flood forced early migration to new MPLS network
“So we figured, ‘Well, should we migrate everything onto the new MPLS network?’ This is an untested network. As a project sponsor, I thought, ‘This is risky.’ The reputation of this network can go and get trashed really quickly, if it doesn’t work. But we really had no other choice. All of the remote sites cannot reach the data center, so we decided we were going to do it.”
By the end of the first day, 75% of the sites had been restored, Basto said.
“So, what was supposed to take a year [or] a year and a half to migrate, we did in a matter of days,” he said, adding that the next four months were spent doing the proper documentation.
“It was very quick. If we didn’t have our MPLS network, it would have been a lot longer to recover.”
