We have identified outages within the North London area affecting multiple exchanges. The affected exchanges are listed as: SHOEBURYNESS,THORPE BAY, CANVEY ISLAND, HADLEIGH – ESSEX, MARINE, NORTH BENFLEET, STANFORD LE HOPE, VANGE, WICKFORD, BLOOMSBURY AKA HOWLAND ST, HOLBORN, PRIMROSE HILL, KINGSLAND GREEN, TOTTENHAM, BOWES PARK, PALMERS GREEN, WALTHAM CROSS, WINCHMORE HILL, EDMONTON, NEW SOUTHGATE, EPPING, HAINAULT, ILFORD NORTH, ROMFORD, UPMINSTER, NORTH WEALD, STAMFORD HILL, DAGENHAM, ILFORD CENTRAL, GOODMAYES, STRATFORD, HIGHAMS PARK, LEYTONSTONE, WALTHAMSTOW, CHINGFORD, KENTISH TOWN and MUSWELL HILL. No root cause has been identified. We will update this status page as the updates become available from our supplier.
Affected Customers went offline at 02:12 this morning. Further information: These exchanges are off line due to 20 tubes of fibre being damaged by the install of a retail advertising board on the A118 Southern [South?] Kings Rd. Notifications from TalkTalk were expecting service to be restored by 9am, but due to the nature of the fibre break it may well take longer to fix.
Update from TalkTalk: Virgin media have advised that work to restore service is ongoing but due to the extent of the damage this is taking longer than expected. In parallel our [TalkTalk] NOC are investigating if the Total Loss traffic can be re-routed. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available.
From TalkTalk: Virgin Media have advised restoration work has completed on the majority of the damaged fibre, our NOC team have also confirmed a number of exchanges are now up and back in service. The exchanges that are now back in service are Muswell Hill, Ingrebourne, Loughton and Bowes Park.
From TalkTalk: Our NOC team have advised a number of exchanges are now in service. These are Muswell Hill, Bowes Park, Loughton, Ingrebourne, Bowes Park, Chingford, Highams Park, Leytonstone, Stratford and Upton Park.
That said, we are still seeing lines on exchanges mentioned above as being offline....
No further updates as yet.
It looks like most, if not all, of our affected lines are now back online. Update from TalkTalk: Virgin Media have advised 5 of the 8 impacted fibre tubes have been successfully spliced and their engineers are still on site restoring service to the remaining cables