Network Outage – Hazel Hall 4th floor and Van Metre Hall 7th floor

Outage category: 
VoIP phone service, Wired Network, Wireless Network
Location: 
Van Meter and Hazel Halls
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
05/30/2025 10:57 am

Network Outage Wired, Wireless, and Voice over IP services unavailable for Hazel Hall 4th floor and Van Metre Hall 7th floor

Initial symptoms: 

Network monitoring showed the two locations as unavailable.

Duration: 
05/30/2025 9:55 am - 05/30/2025 10:57 am
Impact to Mason: 

No Wired, Wireless, or VoIP Services were available in these two locations.

Affected Services: 
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

Unplanned power outage

Resolution: 

Hard reboot caused switches to not restore once power was restored. Network staff had to go to site to restart switches.

Prevention: 

Have adequate staff on-hand to response quickly to outages.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NSOPS