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Fiber Break Causes Internet Outage Tuesday

December 7, 2009
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Fiber Break Causes Internet Outage Tuesday

VALDOSTA -- A break in fiber occurred in the in the lines between Adel and Valdosta at about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12.

PeachNet reports that Georgia Public Web technicians have been dispatched to investigate and repair. Historically, repairs such as this have been made within 8 hours. Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø Information Technology said the repair should be made by approximately 3 p.m.

This break means that users located on campus cannot access resources located off campus such as the Internet, Galileo/GIL, GeorgiaView, ADP, Peoplesoft, email received from or sent to off campus addresses, etc. Users located off campus cannot access resources located on campus, including Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø email, web site, BlazeView, BlazeNet, etc. Emails should queue on senders facilities and process within hours once connections are restored.


*** PeachNet reports confirmed that service was restored at approximately noon Tuesday. Independent reports confirm that web browsers are accessing Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ¹ÙÍø's site now. Anyone still being redirected to the Emergency Web Services page can use the
links there to click through to BlazeView or BlazeNet.

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