Brief Network Outage in Some Buildings during Maintenance, July 19

As part of an ongoing network reconfiguration project, IT Services will perform planned maintenance from 7 to 9 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, to apply changes to the Band Hall distribution switch. During the maintenance, Wi-Fi could be unavailable for up to 5 minutes and wired Internet connections will be down for 5 to 10 seconds in the following buildings:

  • Daniel E. Ferritor Hall
  • Epley Center for Health Professions
  • Fine Arts Center
  • Gibson Annex (Faculty Tech Center)
  • Harmon Avenue Garage
  • Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building (HPER)
  • Lewis E. Epley Jr. Band Hall
  • Sustainability House

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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
Information Technology Services
479-575-2901, ecgriff@uark.edu

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