Information Technology Services

Network Outage All Campuses

Outage category: VoIP phone service, Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: All campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Customers were reporting intermittent network and VoIP based phone issues.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The Perimeter Routers in the Data Center are configured as a redundant pair. One of the routers experienced a hardware issue causing fail-over to the other router. The secondary router also had a different hardware failure occur which started causing the intermittent issues due to high CPU load.

The cause of the service outage was determined to be a known bug in the code.

Resolution

Hardware on both routers were replaced, resolving the issues.

Prevention

The cause of the service outage was determined to be a known bug in the code. We are planning to do code upgrades on the rest of the routers on July 28, 2019.