Northwestern University incident

Telephone Services Interruption

Resolved after 4 hours 22 minutes, affecting Telephone Services (Videoconferencing and Telephones), on September 24, 2026.

monitoring Sep 24, 2026, 09:30 PM UTC

Remediation efforts have completed, monitoring to ensure affected telephones have returned to service, next status update by 17:30 CDT

Started
Sep 24, 2026, 06:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 24, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC
Duration
4h 22m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 24, 2026, 06:58 PM UTC

Affected components

Telephone Services (Videoconferencing and Telephones)

Update timeline

  1. identified Sep 24, 2026, 06:58 PM UTC

    Northwestern Information Technology is aware of a few hundred Cisco telephones on the Evanston and Chicago campuses that are not able to connect to the network and are not functioning. Support staff is working to resolve this issue. The next update will be provided by 15:00 CDT.

  2. identified Sep 24, 2026, 08:24 PM UTC

    Support staff is working to resolve this issue. The next update will be provided by 16:30 CDT.

  3. monitoring Sep 24, 2026, 09:30 PM UTC

    Remediation efforts have completed, monitoring to ensure affected telephones have returned to service, next status update by 17:30 CDT

  4. resolved Sep 24, 2026, 11:21 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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