Recently in Telecommunications Category

This afternoon at approximately 1:30 PM a thunderstorm with multiple lightning strikes to campus buildings damaged some network and telephone equipment in President's Hall and Bayley Hall, creating brief telephone and network outages for parts of the campus. Most camus telephone and network services were restored by 3:30 PM. A few network switches servicing portions of President's Hall and Bayley Hall had to be repaired or replaced. Full service to these areas was restored around 5:00 PM this afternoon. Anyone experiencing continued access problems is advised to reboot thier computer and to call the Technology Help Desk at 973-275-2222 if this does not clear the problem.

University IT Services

Inbound and outbound phone service to the South Orange campus was restored by AT&T around 2:00 PM this afternoon. AT&T has determined the cause of the outage was a faulty circuit in the South Orange Central Office.

The University's inbound and outbound phone service for the main campus is currently down. Users cannot send or receive phone calls to or from off campus. The problem was first reported around 11:50 AM this morning. The cause has been traced to the AT&T circuits in the South Orange Central Office. AT&T is working to restore service. Phone service to the Ring Building and the Law School is not affected.