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On Friday, there will be a network outage affecting the buildings listed below between 1 and 2 PM. During the outage, users will not have access to the Internet or e-mail, and phones in the Union Building and Estates Headquarters will not work.

The affected buildings are:

• Union Building (including Union Lab)
• Estates Headquarters
• Grounds and Gardens Headquarters
• Building Maintenance Stores
• HKE Building
• Sports Pavilion
• CSA/PSAM Building
• Adamson Annexe
• Drostdy Dining Hall
• Graham House
• Drostdy Lodge (Maths Dept)
• Theatre Building
• The Retreat
• Oakdene House
• Fine Art Somerset St building
• SAIAB (including ASCLME and SAEON)

During the outage, a fibre optic cable in the Struben data centre will be relocated.

We've identified a way to re-route network traffic for certain buildings so that they won't be affected by Friday's outage. Provided we can set up the alternative route, the following buildings will not be affected:

• Estates Headquarters
• Grounds and Gardens Headquarters
  
• Building Maintenance Stores
  
• HKE Building
  
• Sports Pavilion
  
• CSA/PSAM Building
  
• Adamson Annexe

At this stage, the following buildings will still definitely be affected:

• Union Building (including Union Lab)
  
• Drostdy Dining Hall
  
• Graham House
  
• Drostdy Lodge (Maths Dept)
  
• Theatre Building
  
• The Retreat
  
• Oakdene House
  
• Fine Art Somerset St building
  
• SAIAB (including ASCLME and SAEON)