Information Technology Services

Network Connectivity and Performance Issues

Outage category: Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: All campuses

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users reporting slowness or dropped network connections.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Firewall 1 had a failure, causing a switchover to the redundant Firewall 2. This caused a drop in sessions while Firewall 2 re-established connections.

Resolution

The firewall redundancy took over., and Engineers will continue to monitor the systems.

Prevention

Engineers are working with the vendor to determine what caused the issue with Firewall 1.