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In what Davis referred to as a “freak occurrence,” a one-second power outage at a Boston power station caused the network instability.
Davis said that the outage was just long enough to cause several machines to shut down. The return of electricity caused a power surge, interfering with network computers, but normal service was restored soon thereafter.
Davis, who is also a Crimson editor, said that computer service employees were actually testing new software designed by Cisco Systems specifically designed to fix a bug during the time of the outage.
Davis said that as part of the repair process, the new updates were installed, which should prevent the problem from occurring in the future.
“Last week we were running tests, but the bug came to fruition before we could put the patch out there,” Davis said.