Network Outage – Innovation Hall

September 30, 2018 12:00 a.m.
Outage category: 
VoIP phone service, Wired Network, Wireless Network
Location: 
Fairfax Campus, Innovation Hall
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
09/06/2018 2:47 pm

At approximately 02:27PM, Innovation Hall experienced a network outage lasted roughly 10 minutes. ITS were able to identify and corrected the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage.

Initial symptoms: 

Loss of wired and wireless network connectivity

Duration: 
09/06/2018 2:47 pm - 09/06/2018 2:47 pm
Impact to Mason: 

All users in Innovation Hall were without internet.

Affected Services: 
Wireless (Wi-Fi) Network, Telephone Services, Banner Admin, Office 365 Email, Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Other Affected Services: 
Wired Network, Websites, Windows-based servers and applications
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.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NA