University of Nebraska experienced a major incident on March 4, 2026 affecting Research Center & Extension Connections, lasting 1d 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 04, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC
Valley County Extension went down at 9:52am CT. Other monitored sites in the area went down at the same time. We are engaging the carrier now, no time of restoral is available. Questions 402-472-3970 or [email protected]
- investigating Mar 04, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC
The carrier is continuing to work towards isolating the cause of the outage.
- identified Mar 04, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC
The carrier has confirmed that this is due to fiber damage and they have an estimated restoral time of 5:30pm CT.
- identified Mar 04, 2026, 09:05 PM UTC
Excavation is on-going and a replacement cable is being prepared. Restoral time is still 5:30pm CT.
- identified Mar 04, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC
The carrier is half way done splicing.
- monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 12:40 AM UTC
Service is starting to recover, repairs are still on-going.
- resolved Mar 05, 2026, 06:28 PM UTC
All systems are operating normally. This issue is resolved.