Backbone connection between Lincoln and Omaha
Investigating - Around 1:10 PM, we lost connectivity on our dark fiber link between Lincoln and Omaha. A ticket was opened with our vendor to identify the cause of the outage.

Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 20, 2025 - 13:58 CDT

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Uptime over the past 90 days. View historical uptime.
Core Services Degraded Performance
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Firewall Operational
Router NN-GI-CP-MX480 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Router NN-LNK-MX960 Operational
90 days ago
99.89 % uptime
Today
Router NN-Norfolk-MX480 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Router NN-SB-MX480 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Router NN-KRN-MX480 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Router NN-OMA-PKI-MX960 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
LNK-NH230-NN-A7150-1 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
LNK-NH230-NN-A7150-2 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
NN-OMA-FARNAM-7150-1 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
NN-OMA-FARNAM-7150-2 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
NN-OMA-PKI-7150-1 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
NN-OMA-PKI-7150-2 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Noction Route Management Operational
Threat Prevention Operational
DNS/DHCP ? Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Transport Backbone Degraded Performance
Internet / Peering Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Allo Operational
CenturyLink Operational
Windstream Operational
Hurricane Electric Operational
Omaha Internet Exchange (OmahaIX) Operational
Internet2 Operational
Google Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Educational Service Units Operational
ESU 1 Operational
ESU 2 Operational
ESU 3 Operational
ESU 4 Operational
ESU 5 Operational
ESU 6 Operational
ESU 7 Operational
ESU 8 Operational
ESU 9 Operational
ESU 10 Operational
ESU 11 Operational
ESU 13 Operational
ESU 15 Operational
ESU 16 Operational
ESU 17 Operational
ESU 18 Operational
ESU 19 Operational
State Colleges Operational
Chadron State College Operational
Peru State College Operational
Wayne State College Operational
Private Denominational Schools Operational
Sacred Heart School Operational
Brownell Talbot School Operational
Catholic Diocese of Lincoln Schools Operational
Special Schools Operational
DHHS Kearney West High School Operational
DHHS West Hastings School Operational
DHHS YRTC-Lincoln Operational
Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired Operational
Community and Tribal Colleges Operational
Central Community College Area Operational
Mid-Plains Community College Area Operational
Northeast Community College Area Operational
Southeast Community College Area Operational
Metro Community College Area Operational
Western Nebraska Community College Area Operational
Little Priest Tribal College Operational
Nebraska Indian Community College Operational
Private Non Profit Colleges / Universities Operational
Union Adventist University Operational
Clarkson College Operational
Doane University Operational
Creighton University Operational
Midland University Operational
Nebraska Wesleyan University Operational
Public Libraries Operational
Beatrice Public Library Operational
Fairmont Public Library Operational
Grand Island Public Library Operational
Lincoln City Library System Operational
Omaha Public Library System Operational
Gibbon Public Library Operational
North Loup Library Operational
Non Profit Educational Entities Operational
Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park-Royal Operational
Homestead National Monument-Beatrice Operational
Trailside Museum-Crawford Operational
University of Nebraska State Museum-Lincoln Operational
NGPC Platte River State Park Operational
NGPC Schramm State Park & Aquarium Operational
Municipalities Operational
City of Lincoln Operational
City of Wayne Operational
Zoom Operational
Zoom Zoom Phone Operational
Zoom Zoom Meetings Operational
Zoom Zoom Software Operational
Zoom Telephone Services Operational
Operational
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No incidents or maintenance related to this downtime.

Scheduled Maintenance

EMS down time Mar 26, 2025 14:00-20:00 CDT

RFC 97237: EMS will be unavailable during maintenance. Direct impact: Users will not be able to use EMS for 6-12 hours. ITS will be EMS will be moving to new servers during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Posted on Mar 06, 2025 - 15:40 CST

NeSIS - PeopleSoft System down time Apr 25, 2025 20:00 - Apr 26, 2025 14:00 CDT

RFC 82357: NeSIS - PeopleSoft System will be unavailable during maintenance. Direct impact: Users will not be able to use PeopleSoft System including Mavlink, MyBlue, MyCSC, MyNCTA, MyPSC, MyRecords, MyRED and WildcatsOnline. ITS will be preforming a PeopleTools upgrade during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Posted on Jan 17, 2025 - 09:46 CST
Mar 20, 2025

Unresolved incident: Backbone connection between Lincoln and Omaha.

Mar 19, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 18, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 17, 2025
PeopleSoft down time
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Mar 17, 03:00 CDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 16, 23:00 CDT
Scheduled - RFC 100951: PeopleSoft System will be unavailable during maintenance. Direct impact: PeopleSoft including Mavlink, MyBlue, MyCSC, MyNCTA, MyPSC, MyRecords, MyRED and WildcatsOnline will be unavaliable. ITS will be financial aid updates during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 14, 13:27 CDT
Mar 16, 2025
Mar 15, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 14, 2025
TrueYou Self Service down time
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Mar 14, 17:15 CDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 14, 17:00 CDT
Scheduled - RFC 98730: TrueYou self service will be unavailable during maintenance. Direct impact: Users will be unable to use Self Service features such as, forgot password, change password, account claim, account look ups, and Duo device management while changes are being deployed and servers are restarting. ITS will be deploying upgrades to the TrueYou server during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 6, 15:30 CST
Mar 13, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 12, 2025
Network Backbone impaired service
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Mar 12, 06:00 CDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 12, 00:00 CDT
Scheduled - RFC 91678: Network backbone NH and Bellevue will have reduced performance during maintenance. Direct impact: This will take down circuit for MARC, Internet2, and GPN. All NU circuits going from Lincoln to Kansas City will be down during the maintenance window. Possible impact: Rerouting traffic to alternate paths may cause issues. ITS's vendor will be preforming fiber maintenance during this time. Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Feb 13, 11:55 CST
Mar 11, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 10, 2025
Backbone ring between Omaha and Lincoln single sided
Resolved - The vendor has completed all repairs and all connections have restored.
Mar 10, 19:54 CDT
Update - The vendor estimates that work should be complete by 8:00 pm CT.
Mar 10, 19:08 CDT
Update - The vendor has begun work to remove the damaged cable and restore service. No time to restoral has been given.
Mar 10, 15:34 CDT
Update - The vendor is continuing to isolate all points of damage and finalizing a plan to restore service.
Mar 10, 12:29 CDT
Identified - The vendor has isolated partial damage to a span of fiber in Lincoln. Splicers should be on site before noon CT, but no time to restoral has been given.
Mar 10, 11:24 CDT
Investigating - One backbone connection between Omaha and Lincoln is down. The vendor is investigating an issue with their fiber in the field. All traffic is on the redundant connection.
Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 10, 09:01 CDT
Lumen Transport Event
Resolved - This connection has been stable since the 5th. We have isolated this to an equipment issue that resolved itself before troubleshooting began. Please report any related issues: 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 10, 09:08 CDT
Update - Our equipment vendor is continuing to analyze all available information to determine the exact cause of this issue. We have made some improvements to the configuration of the connection between Omaha and Lincoln, and we will continue to monitor the situation.

Please report issues to 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu.
Mar 6, 23:29 CST
Update - We are continuing to work with our vendors to verify our routers, and to investigate the the issues we saw with the fiber between Omaha and Lincoln.  We will be performing emergency maintenance after 10pm today to improve the resiliency of this connection.
Mar 6, 13:04 CST
Monitoring - The issue was related to a transport event caused by Lumen. We have ongoing communication with the Lumen NOC, and all customer traffic was restored shortly after the incident.
Mar 5, 21:54 CST
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Mar 5, 15:23 CST
Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Mar 5, 14:28 CST
Mar 9, 2025
Firewall upgrade
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Mar 9, 10:00 CDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 9, 07:00 CDT
Scheduled - RFC 98264: Firewalls at SEC Datacenter, BDC Datacenter, Network Nebraska PKI & LNK will undergo maintenance. Direct impact: No impact is expected. ITS will be updating firewall versions during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 6, 15:17 CST
Mar 8, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 7, 2025

No incidents reported.

Mar 6, 2025
Bundle between Omaha and Lincoln impaired service
Completed - This work has been completed successfully.
Mar 6, 23:25 CST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 6, 22:00 CST
Scheduled - RFC 99483: Bundle between Omaha and Lincoln will have reduced performance during maintenance. Direct impact: Windstream Internet will go down, but traffic will failover to other Internet providers.. Possible impact: The connection between Omaha and Lincoln could go down, if it does then any traffic going across that connection would see an impact as it fails over to redundant paths.. Engineers will be altering configuration between Omaha and Lincoln during this time.
Entered by - Loren Frerichs Questions 402-472-7656 Toll Free 888-638-6327 (1-888-NET-NEBR) or noc@nebraska.edu
Mar 6, 16:59 CST
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