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. -- Networkmaine NOC University of Maine System Maine School and Library Network (207) 581-3587 [log in to unmask]