The OUCS equipment providing the departmental network connection to the university backbone network, as well as the connection between the St Giles building and our other 4 sites, failed at about 1:30pm on Sunday 16th May. OUCS have installed replacement parts restoring service at 9:45am on Monday 17th May.
There have been previous short (2-5 minute) interruptions to the network connection of the St Giles building over the last month or so which were reported to OUCS at the time. Hopefully this is all part of the same problem and thus the parts replaced will result in no further short losses of connectivity.