Information Technology Services

Network Outage – Innovation Hall

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

Location: Fairfax Campus, Innovation Hall

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Loss of wired and wireless network connectivity

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Innovation Router crashed and the back-up took over.

Resolution

Traffic pushed to back-up router. NET is working with vendor to determine the cause of the crash.

Prevention

A dual fiber run is in the works for every switch on campus. Once it is 100% complete, the fail-over to the back-up router will be more graceful.