A planned software upgrade of the BGAN RAN to version 8.53 will affect Inmarsat BGAN customers.  The details and timeline of the upgrades are given below:


Activity:   BGAN RAN 8.53 Software Upgrade

Date of maintenance:  Tuesday 7th July

Ocean Region:  EMEA

Services affected: BGAN

Start of Maintenance period:  21:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period:   00:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Single, less than two minutes per terminal

Outage Impact: The terminal could need to reacquire the network 

Actions needed by user:   Restart the terminal if the terminal will not reacquire automatically

 

Activity:   BGAN RAN switch back to Burum

Date of maintenance:  Thursday 9th July 

Ocean Region:  EMEA

Services affected: BGAN

Start of Maintenance period:  21:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period:   00:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Single, less than two minutes per terminal

Outage Impact: The terminal could need to reacquire the network 

Actions needed by user:   Restart the terminal if the terminal will not reacquire automatically

 

Activity:   BGAN RAN 8.53 Software Upgrade

Date of maintenance:  Tuesday 14th July

Ocean Region:  EMEA

Services affected: BGAN

Start of Maintenance period:  21:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period:   00:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Single, less than two minutes per terminal

Outage Impact: The terminal could need to reacquire the network 

Actions needed by user:   Restart the terminal if the terminal will not reacquire automatically

 

Activity:   BGAN RAN 8.53 Software Upgrade

Date of maintenance:  Thursday 16th July

Ocean Region:  EMEA

Services affected: BGAN

Start of Maintenance period:  21:00 UTC

End of Maintenance period:   00:00 UTC

Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s): Single, less than two minutes per terminal

Outage Impact: The terminal could need to reacquire the network 

Actions needed by user:  Restart the terminal if the terminal will not reacquire automatically