Exascale Outage History

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Exascale had 6 outages in the last 2 years totaling 646h 6m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 6 Exascale outages since November 18, 2025 totaling 646h 6m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.exascale.co.uk

Major October 4, 2026

Uplink to Vodafone DSL Network Down

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 04, 2026, 07:21 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 04, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC
Duration
5h 16m
Affected: Vodafone WDSL
Timeline · 7 updates
  1. investigating Oct 04, 2026, 07:21 AM UTC

    We are currently observing the Uplink to the Vodafone DSL network being down. This is currently effecting all FTTP and SoGEA circuits.

  2. investigating Oct 04, 2026, 07:32 AM UTC

    It would appear the uplink(s) to Vodafone are online but the bundle is down. A field engineer has been dispatched by Vodafone to MCR11 at 8AM to investigate

  3. investigating Oct 04, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

    Vodafone has advised that a line card within its network is reporting alarms. Attempts to clear the alarms by reseating the card have been unsuccessful. A replacement card is being collected from Vodafone’s stores. A field engineer will then return to site to remove the faulty card and install the replacement.

  4. identified Oct 04, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

    We're awaiting a further update from Vodafone Service Desk

  5. identified Oct 04, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC

    The engineer is now on-site at the Vodafone network site MCR11 (Manchester 11), and is proceeding the replace the faulty optical equipment to restore the service. Once Exascale sees early signs of service recovery we will update this incident accordingly.

  6. monitoring Oct 04, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

    We have seen a large number of broadband services recover since the faulty optical equipment has been replaced by Vodafone engineers. We will continue to monitor for the next hour. If your service hasn't recovered, please email [email protected] and we will investigate further.

  7. resolved Oct 04, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC

    We're confident this is now resolved as we have seen all circuits recover.

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Minor August 16, 2026

Core Router Reload - pe0.lhr0.uk.as61049.net

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 16, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 16, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC
Duration
6h 47m
Affected: LHR0 - Telehouse North, London, UK
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Aug 16, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

    We have observed a core router reload in Telehouse North, while the majority of the network has continued to function any directly connected circuits to pe0.lhr0.uk.as61049.net will have been interrupted. We are raising a case with Cisco TAC.

  2. monitoring Aug 16, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC

    We are starting to see BGP sessions restore on pe0.lhr0.uk.as61049.net

  3. resolved Aug 16, 2026, 07:29 PM UTC

    We have seen stability for many hours. We are to schedule a future IOS XR upgrade to improve stability.

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Minor March 18, 2026

Elveated Loss on Link facing Aggrigation Router

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 18, 2026, 09:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 13, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
Duration
25d 15h
Affected: TEL0 - Exascale, Telford, UK
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. monitoring Mar 18, 2026, 09:12 PM UTC

    We have seen observed elevated optical loss and increased errors towards agg1, we have taken decisive action to replace the optical transceivers at both ends of the link to ensure service remains stable.

  2. monitoring Apr 13, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  3. monitoring Apr 13, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Apr 13, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 26, 2026

Network outage

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 26, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 26, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Feb 26, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

    An unexpected outage occurred in the data centre, impacting the network. This has since been resolved.

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Critical November 18, 2025

DDOS Protection Outage - Affecting public facing websites

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 18, 2025, 12:01 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 18, 2025, 06:58 PM UTC
Duration
6h 57m
Affected: Website DDOS Protection
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Nov 18, 2025, 11:53 AM UTC

    We are experiencing an outage with all websites and services protected by CloudFlare.

  2. identified Nov 18, 2025, 11:56 AM UTC

    We're starting to see websites recover. We await further updates from CloudFlare.

  3. identified Nov 18, 2025, 12:01 PM UTC

    Unfortunately we have seen services via CloudFlare revert to being offline. We await updates.

  4. resolved Dec 23, 2025, 06:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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