Lumen Fiber Cut

Incident Report for MOREnet Service

Resolved

Lumen crews isolated a broken fiber in a buried handhole. The fiber was repaired, thus restoring impacted services to a stable state. Validations were performed confirming all associated alarms are clear and services have returned to a stable state.

MOREnet NOC
Posted May 08, 2026 - 14:02 CDT

Update

Lumen has engaged their own teams as well as the local exchange carrier to help locate the damage.
Posted May 07, 2026 - 15:53 CDT

Identified

Lumen has confirmed a transport line down in their network. The Lumen Optical team has been engaged to dispatch and locate damage. Updates will follow.

MOREnet NOC
Posted May 07, 2026 - 15:47 CDT

Update

We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted May 07, 2026 - 14:39 CDT

Investigating

MOREnet engineers are investigating a possible fiber cut affecting some Lumen aggregation. Updates will follow.

Affected sites:
Leesville R-IX
Mirabile C-1
Appleton City R-II
Kingsville R-I
Hudson R-IX
Odessa Branch - Trails Regional Library
Hardin-Central C-2 (High School)
Oak Hill R-I
Calhoun R-VIII


MOREnet NOC
Posted May 07, 2026 - 14:21 CDT
This incident affected: MOREnet Network (MOREnet Backbone, MOREnet Aggregation).