Information Technology Services

Network Outage – Multiple Remote Sites

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

Location: 9900 Main St., Democracy Ln., Point of View, and Potomac Science Center

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Ping failure on network monitoring systems.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

OSPF adjacencies went down between our equipment and the remote site vendor.

Resolution

Vendor couldn’t narrow down to exactly what happened. All hardware and connection seem to be up. There was also no indication of failure on our end as a few other remote sites were still up and they were connected to the same equipment (router) in Harris Theater.

Prevention

We leave the ticket open with the vendor for now and continue to monitor for any abnormal behaviors.