WiscNet experienced a critical incident on October 2, 2026 affecting Iowa State University, lasting 50m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 02, 2026, 06:51 AM UTC
The WiscNet NOC has observed alarms for what we believe is the transit share to the **Iowa State University** with our Circuit ID of **401220**. Please verify power to your site and the network equipment. If you are not aware of any internal work occurring and believe this is a network event, please contact the WiscNet NOC with any information you are able to provide and we will keep looking into this. If you have any additional questions, please contact WiscNet NOC at **\(608\) 442-6761, option 1**.
- identified Oct 02, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
Hello, We are seeing alarms for this clear as of 2:30am. Thank you,
- resolved Oct 02, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem Oct 02, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC
Date & Time of Incident: 10/2 1:11am Duration: 61 Minutes Technician\(s\): Johnathon Laun Review Date: 10/2 Brief Summary: We observed traffic alarms indicating the site was down Root Cause: Unsure, seems to maybe be related to Merit Peering maintenance due to the timing of other alarms #2296156 \(WiscNet TKT, 1795411 Merit Ticket\)