Campus-wide network interruption - Outage

Incident Report for University of Waterloo

Investigating

At approximately 11:15 PM on November 7, a hardware failure caused a network disruption in the IST Data Centre. The resulting cascading failures led to a campus-wide internet outage.

IST worked on-site overnight and mitigated the issue at approximately 5:00 AM, restoring network connectivity.

The vendor will be engaged for support and root cause analysis.

Posted Nov 08, 2026 - 05:08 EST

This incident affects: Network (Internet, Data Center).