A number of short, late night network maintenance activities will occur in conjunction with Fall break.
On Friday, October 5 at 11:30 PM there will be a 10-20 minute outage of network, phones and wireless in the following buildings: Robinson House, Lang Music and Dana.
On Friday, October 12 at 11:30 PM there will be a 10-20 minute outage of network, phones and wireless in the following buildings: Parrish, Ben West and Beardsley. Also on the 12th, there will be a few 5-10 minute Internet outages between 10 PM and Midnight effecting all buildings. VPN service will also be unavailable during these interruptions.
On Friday, October 19 at 11:30 PM there will be a 10-20 minute outage of network, phones and wireless in all buildings other than ones mentioned for October 5 and 12. Also on this date, a 10 minute phone outage will occur in Parrish after 10 PM.
The maintenance involves upgrading software on campus switches and installing a newer and higher capacity bandwidth shaper for evaluation on the Internet connection.