Large Internet Outage Across East Coast Around Noon Today

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:21:49 -0500
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There are widespread reports of Internet outages across the east coast that started around 11:30am this morning. These are affecting access to various services including Gmail, Blackboard, WebEx, and many other services that UMBC students, faculty and staff use. It is also broadly affecting Verizon FIOS and other providers, so accessing sites outside of work or school will also be affected.

We would ask people to be patient, we have seen indications service is already being restored in many area. In the meantime, if you are on a video conference for work or class, dialing in with you phone should help ensure your audio remains clear even if the video is experiencing issues due to these outages.

I've attached a link to the brief Washington post article on this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/internet-outage-east-coast/

We are hopeful service will be restored to all applications shortly.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly at

damian@umbc.edu

Damian Doyle

Associate Vice President

DoIT - UMBC