Brief Network Outage for Some Buildings During Maintenance, May 24

As part of an ongoing network reconfiguration project, IT Services will perform planned maintenance from 7 to 9 a.m. on Sunday, May 24, to apply changes to the Administrative Services Building distribution switch. During the maintenance, Wi-Fi could be unavailable for up to five minutes and wired Internet connections will be down for 5 to 10 seconds in the following buildings:

  • Administrative Services Building
  • Baum Stadium
  • Bud Walton Arena
  • Cato Springs Research Center
  • Engineering Research Center
  • Facilities Management
  • Arkansas Research and Technology Park
  • Pomfret Hall
  • Testing Center Annex

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Planned outages are posted at itstatus.uark.edu/calendar. Get outage notifications and updates from IT Services at twitter.com/uaits, facebook.com/uarkITS or its.uark.edu/news. For notifications from the Network Engineering Team, follow twitter.com/uark_net and facebook.com/uark.net.

Contacts

Erin Griffin, documentation/user support specialist
IT Services
479-575-2901, ecgriff@uark.edu

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