Maintenance Release Update

Dear valued customer,

This is to inform you that UnitedTech will be performing maintenance release (MR) updates to it’s PortaSwitch system on the 11th, 12th and 13th of January.

UnitedTech will be updating its system from MR55 (current) to MR60 in this period.

The update process will be done in two phases:

Phase 1 – 11/12 January (22h00-05h00) – Minor services updates, this includes logs, web interface and other minor services. Voice services will not be affected.

Phase 2 – 12/13 January (22h00-05h00) – Major service updates, during this time voice services will be heavily affected with intermittent downtime.

We apologize for inconvenience caused during the outage period.

Kind regards,

UnitedTech

Last Updated: December 2018

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