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Long distance dialing not available July 17, 2014

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 11:15 AM, due to a problem at Bell Canada the long distance calling service were stopped. Bell Fixed the issue on Friday at 10:00 AM We apologize for any inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage at 112 and 114 Bond St.: July 5 and 6, 2014

On Saturday July 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM, all network connections to 112 and 114 Bond St. buildings went down due to rodents chewing on the fibre cables feeding these buildings. A temporary fibre repair has been implemented and services were restored on … Continue reading

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Intermittent Network Access on Wednesday April 30, 2014 from 7:00 to 7:55 AM

On Wednesday April 30, 2014 between 7:00 and 7:55 AM, one of the core network switches had intermittent port failures which caused a general intermittent network outage. The switch had to be rebooted at 7:45 to resume the services. We … Continue reading

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Slow network for Mac OSX April 14 to April 16, 2014

An incompatibility has been identified between certain versions of Maverick OSX and the Sophos 9.0.6 threat prevention module. This incompatibility caused severe slowness for web browsing on these devices. A newer version of Sophos has been deployed that alleviates the … Continue reading

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Voice Mail Outage: Tuesday April 2, 2014 from 7:33 to 7:39 AM

On Tuesday April 2, 2014 at 7:33 AM, the Call-Pilot Voice Mail server had to be rebooted to clear a hung trunk line. Users were unable to access their voice mail during the server reboot. Services were resumed  at 7:39 … Continue reading

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VoIP Phones outage: March 31, 2014 from 8:20 PM to April 1, 2014 8:30 AM

On Monday March 31, 2014 at 8:20 PM, the VoIP phones’ server failed. The vendor was called and a reboot of the entire PBX phone switch had to be done to bring the VoIP server up. Services were resumed on … Continue reading

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Phone outage: April 1, 2014 from 8:20 to 8:30 AM

On Tuesday April 1, 2014 at 8:20 AM, the entire PBX phone switch had to be rebooted to fix a problem with the VoIP phones. This caused an outage for all phones and call centres all over campus. Services were … Continue reading

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Network Outage: Sunday March 30, 2014 from 5:35 to 6:50 PM

On Sunday March 30, 2014 and between 5:35 to 6:50 PM, CCS received alerts about intermittent Internet access. CCS staff are trying to validate the alerts and find the root cause. We apologize for any inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage: Friday, March 14, 2014 7:11 AM – 7:35 AM

On Friday, March 14, 2014, at 7:11 AM, CCS added an additional firewall to the existing user subnets to provide extra redundancy. However, the new firewall took over prematurely and caused a network outage on the user subnets. Services were … Continue reading

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Network outage on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 6:15 AM to 7:50 AM

On Friday, February 21, 2014, at 6:15 AM, CCS replaced the existing Internet facing firewall with a newer and much faster firewall. This caused an outage for the incoming and outgoing Internet traffic such as access to email and to … Continue reading

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