There was a lightning strike between Lewiston and Portland at about 5:20pm that has damaged a fiber cable that our primary north/south connection runs over. All dual homed location rerouted automatically and our Portland/Bangor traffic failed over to the backup link. We had to manually reroute a few single-homed locations around the damaged fiber which we has completed within a couple of hours. Crews are in the process of repairing the fiber with a expected completion around 11:30 pm. The repair work seems to be causing problems for Oxford Networks which is affecting one of our two gigabit connections to Cambridge. (Oxford Networks and others use strands in the same damaged fiber optic cable.) Jeff -- Jeff Letourneau Associate Director Communications and Network Services University of Maine System