Optical Transport Disruption Between Ames and Des Moines Wednesday 24th April 2024 17:45:00


Our optical transport ring to Des Moines experienced a disruption between the Ames and Des Moines nodes. The dark fiber provider indicates that damage from excavation along the interstate and they are having to pull a new 96 count fiber through an alternate conduit to perform a temporary repair.

Our vendor has confirmed they are hands-off. We verified links are back up and appear to be stable.

We have been informed by our OSP that they a splicing solution is underway with an estimated time to restore of approximately 10:00AM.