Information Technology Services

Intermittent Phone Issues

Outage category: Telephone

Location: Fairfax Campus

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

A small sample of intermittent audio loss on phone calls or dropped calls started on October 11th at 10:00 a.m. This progressed to more the following days.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The Aquia Session Border Controller (SBC) needed to be rebooted.  This was discovered after a dropped audio call was able to be traced while still connected.

 

Resolution

The Aquia Session Border Controller (SBC) was rebooted and appeared to clear the issue.  The issue cleared by approx. at 6:30 p.m, October 17th.  Calls were monitored until an alert update was sent as all clear on October 21st at 11:45 a.m.

Prevention

Vendor will be monitoring Aquia SBC for any future issues.