Power Outage to Affect Campus Internet Access on Wednesday, May 20

Facilities Management will perform electrical maintenance that will affect the campus network from 5:45 to 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20. During the maintenance, power will be down for main campus buildings, and Internet access in campus buildings will be interrupted. The Network Engineering Team will be available to address potential network issues immediately following the maintenance.

The Data Center, distribution switches, core router and core firewall will not be affected. Off-campus access to services such as Blackboard Learn, ISIS, email, Password Manager, online forms and the university Web presence will remain available during the power outage.

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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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