Break occurred at 4:00pm this afternoon. MFC is aware of the break and has initiated their repair procedures. Our optical path around far side of the northern ring has stayed up but layer-2/3 connectivity did not switch over properly. A configuration error was found and once corrected Layer-2/3 came up across the far side of the ring as designed. Network connectivity to UMFK, UMPI, and multiple sites in Houlton were down until roughly 4:45pm. Both UMFK and UMPI were contacted shortly after the outage occurred. (Houlton sites are closed today.) Jeff -- Jeff Letourneau Executive Director, Networkmaine University of Maine System t: 207-561-3507 f: 207-561-3531 *You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.* - Buckminster Fuller* *