November 6, 2020 Release Notes

New features

Order PacketFabric outbound cross connects when creating a point-to-point connection

You now have the option to upload an LOA for one or both ports when creating a point-to-point connection:

For more information, see Cross Connects.

Enable and disable ports in a point-to-point connection

You can now enable and disable ports from the point-to-point connection details page:

Changes and enhancements

• Added an API property to identify devices that support LAGs.
• Continued work converting portal pages to API v2.0.
• Virtual circuits now show immediately after provisioning without requiring a page refresh.
• When creating an IX connection, the IX’s alias (if specified) appears in the drop-down menu when selecting an IX.
• Removed the Learned MACs page from virtual circuit details pages.
• For marketplace and IX connections, the A side can now modify rate limits when editing the virtual circuit.

Bug fixes

• An error in the billing system resulted in multiple SOFs being generated and sent.
• Incorrect IX bandwidth options were displayed on order forms.
• IX virtual circuits not displaying prices.
• Fix to prevent users from creating IX and marketplace virtual circuits that are untagged on both ends.
• Users were being sent to the wrong page when trying to navigate to a hosted cloud virtual circuit from a port details page. This resulted in some VLAN IDs being incorrectly modified.
• LAG interfaces not showing location or media.
• Invalid circuit IDs shown on dashboard graphs.
• Cloud connectivity documents were not being listed.
• Fixed several issues in which services created with API v1.0 were not responding correctly to API v2.0 requests.
• New virtual circuits incorrectly placed in the “Disconnected” state.
• Fixed multiple issues that were occurring when creating a dedicated cloud connection.
• Users were unable to upload LOAs in .docx format.
• Read-only users were unable to view upgrade options.
• The Z side was seeing a 404 error when populating connection requests if the A side had already deleted one of the requests.

Network

New locations

• 10/01/2020 - LON2: Interxion LON1 at 11 Handbury St, London, E1 6QR
• 10/12/2020 - CDG1: Equinix PA2 Paris at 114 Rue Ambroise Croizat, Saint Denis, France 93200
• 10/12/2020 - CDG2: Interxion PAR5 at 11-13 Avenue des Arts et Metiers, Saint Denis, France 93200
• 10/22/2020 - AMS1: Equinix AM3 at Science Park 610, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 10/26/2020 - FRA1: Equinix FR5 at Kleyerstraße 90, 60326 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Knowledge base

New pages

• Activity and Error Logs
• PacketFabric Network Hierarchy
• IBM Direct Link Overview
• Upgrade an IBM Direct Link Connection
• Delete an IBM Direct Link Connection

Updates

• PacketFabric Frequently Asked Questions: Added a section on user credentials and authentication.
• Upgrade a Google Dedicated Connection: Updated to clarify that you can upgrade terms, but to upgrade capacity you need to create a new virtual circuit.