Network Outage – Potomac Heights (Fairfax)

Outage category: 
Telephone, Wired Network
Location: 
Potomac Heights Staff networks
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
06/05/2025 1:38 pm

Network outage affecting the staff network traffic in the Potomac Heights.  This outage did not impact student dorm network traffic.

Initial symptoms: 

Network Monitoring showed that systems were down.

Duration: 
06/05/2025 11:12 am - 06/05/2025 1:38 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Network outage affecting the staff network traffic in the Potomac Heights.

Affected Services: 
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

A fiber optic cable was showing errors causing issue with connectivity.

Resolution: 

Fiber optic cable was scoped and cleaned.

Prevention: 

Monitoring and having staff on location to respond to break/fix issues

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NSOPS, FIENG