As an update to this, the cause of the loss of the optical equipment is a
power outage necessitated by CMP doing work that required a generator
powering the equipment to be taken offline.  Timeline to restore power is
estimated at 3pm at this point.  No additional disruption is expected when
power is restored however.

Thank you.

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University of Maine System
Maine School and Library Network
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:02 PM Networkmaine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At approximately 11:30am today there was a brief widespread network
> disruption impacting multiple University campuses as well as numerous
> schools and libraries.  The cause of the outage was a loss of optical
> equipment in Augusta, which disrupted a primary north/south network path.
> This triggered a failover to backup paths, which unfortunately took a few
> moments to fully complete resulting in the disruption.  Work to restore the
> Augusta equipment is ongoing, however no additional impacts to the network
> are expected.  All services have fully restored onto the backup paths.   If
> any issues are still being noticed that are believed to be related to this
> event, please contact Networkmaine for troubleshooting.
>
> Thank you.
>
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> University of Maine System
> Maine School and Library Network
> (207) 581-3587
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