Network equipment upgrades will mean outages in several campus buildings January 25 and 26.

As part of the ongoing network upgrade project, equipment in Art A & B, Bleachers, and Business Services will be replaced on January 25 and in Forbes A, B, C and D and Founders Hall on January 26. In each instance, the wireless access equipment will be replaced and verified to be working first, to ensure maximum available connectivity during the replacement process.

ITS will be placing notices on the exterior doors of all affected buildings the day before the outages are planned to take place as a reminder. You’ll find a complete schedule of buildings and outage windows on the ITS website at www.humboldt.edu/its/access-layer-cutover-schedule.

It is not expected that any individual outage will be longer than five minutes within the window of time shown on the schedule. For this reason, there’s no need to contact the help desk unless your network or internet access has been unavailable for 10 or more minutes and rebooting the system does not fix things.

Once it’s done, both wired and wireless networks will be significantly faster.

Contact the Technology Help Desk at x4357 with any questions.