Liberty Square Internet Outage

Outage category: 
Wireless Network
Location: 
Liberty Square A,B, and C
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
11/02/2021 8:00 pm

Users in Liberty Square wings A, B, and C had wireless connectivity issues.

Initial symptoms: 

Users complained of loss of wireless connections.

Duration: 
11/02/2021 5:33 pm - 11/02/2021 8:00 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Users in Liberty Square had reduced or no wi-fi connections during outage period.

Affected Services: 
Network Access
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

2 nodes went down at Liberty Square causing a partial outage at Liberty Square A, B and C

Resolution: 

Rebooted distribution switch and optics on the switch in Liberty A were swamped which restored service

Prevention: 

Apogee monitoring light levels on all links and will continue to replace fiber optics transceivers when needed between MDF and IDF locations

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
Apogee