Network Outage – The Potomac Science Center

Outage category: 
Wired Network, Wireless Network
Location: 
Potomac Science Center
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
01/10/2024 1:49 pm

The Potomac Science Center suffered an outage to all network services.

Initial symptoms: 

Network & Security Operations noted that they had lost access to the Potomac Science Center from their monitoring tools.

Duration: 
01/10/2024 1:08 pm - 01/10/2024 1:49 pm
Impact to Mason: 

All users at the Potomac Science Center were without network services.

Affected Services: 
Network Access
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

The ISP providing service to the Potomac Science Center had a grief outage.

Resolution: 

Network & Security Operations contacted the ISP to notify them of the outage.

Prevention: 

Have adequate resources on-site to dispatch and work with ISP

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NSOPS