Exascale incident

Outage in Edinburgh Area

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Exascale experienced a critical incident on March 12, 2021, lasting 1d 7h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 12, 2021, 02:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 13, 2021, 10:24 PM UTC
Duration
1d 7h
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 12, 2021, 02:30 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 12, 2021, 03:03 PM UTC

    We're currently observing a outage in Edinburgh, we're currently investigating and will update this incident as we know more.

  2. identified Mar 12, 2021, 03:11 PM UTC

    SSE have advised of a major incident in Edinburgh, we're awaiting a ETA

  3. identified Mar 12, 2021, 03:42 PM UTC

    Engineers have isolated the issue to be a 3rd party fibre span between Edinburgh and Glasgow, we have spoken to the provider and they are aware of a fibre issue on their network and engineers are being mobilised. A Further update will be made at 1730hrs. We apologise for any inconvenience.

  4. identified Mar 12, 2021, 09:04 PM UTC

    Our 3rd party have advised that engineers were travelling to Glasgow / Edinburgh from Birmingham and are due to arrive imminently. They will then proceed to OTDR test to determine the location of the fibre break.

  5. identified Mar 13, 2021, 10:24 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  6. resolved Mar 13, 2021, 10:24 PM UTC

    We've been advised the fibre break is now resolved and have observed stable connectivity between Manchester and Edinburgh for a number of hours.