Information Technology Services

Network Outage – Intermittent Network Connectivity Issues

Outage category: Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: All campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Customers contacted Support Center and Network Operations noting they received interruption to internet services, such as web and conferencing applications.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Transient external event in dark fiber network caused optical power on link from SciTech to Equinix Co-location facility to temporarily drop below receive threshold.

Resolution

Transient external event in dark fiber network caused optical power on link from SciTech to Equinix Co-location facility to temporarily drop below receive threshold.

Prevention

ITS Engineering staff is working with network operator to isolate and correct issues causing loss in the optical pathway.