At approximately 1:10pm this afternoon there was a network outage impacting many or all University locations for approximately four minutes affecting connectivity to and from the University network from the Internet. The cause was an optical link failure, possibly related to the similar issue experienced on June 29th, though that is not confirmed at this time. The link failure caused services to fail over to a backup path, and we believe all affected services are operational again at this time. Work is currently ongoing to troubleshoot the root cause of the issue, and further details will be posted when available. If you are still experiencing issues you feel are related to this event, please contact Networkmaine to report and troubleshoot them. Please note that if you connect to any University resources such as VPN or jabber, you may need to restart those connections to restore operation. Thank you. -- Networkmaine NOC University of Maine System Maine School and Library Network (207) 581-3587 [log in to unmask]