Monday, August 31, 2009

Update on Power Outage Impacts

Greetings All,

This message is to inform you that during the power outage this morning, the Crown Mountain facilitate (which houses the radios for our microwave system) apparently lost power. This caused all microwave services between the campuses to be interrupted. This includes videoconferencing, four digit dial and access to Banner and Blackboard.

As of 11:45 power to Crown Mountain is still out. WAPA indicates that it may take several hours to repair.

We are in the processes of rerouting Banner and Blackboard traffic over the Internet to restore this service to St. Croix. This will take about 30 minutes. There are two videoconference classes scheduled at noon, we are working with instructors to provide teleconference capabilities. There is one class at 1pm which we will route over the Internet. The next classes are not until 4pm, so we are hoping WAPA service to Crown Mountain will be restored by that time.

We will keep you updated.



Tina M. Koopmans
Chief Information Officer

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