Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:28 p.m.

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Power failure causes campus Web outage

Utility plant, power distribution were not affected

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, March 31, 2008

The University’s Internet service went dark Friday for more than an hour after a power failure in an Information Technology Services equipment room.

Students were jolted into an unwanted Facebook reprieve at 1:38 p.m., and not all of campus was back online until at least 3 p.m., ITS officials said. It was the most significant unplanned outage in recent memory.

Surprisingly, perhaps, the downtime was traced to a hiccup in the basement of Commons, the University’s largest dining hall, where several key components of Yale’s Internet and telephone systems are...

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