Zoom meeting software experienced a partial outage Monday, Aug 24, 2020 as many students started up online classes. The company said it started receiving reports of people being unable to start and join Zoom meetings around 9am E.D.T. — Kansas State Board of Education via AP
NEW YORK: Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare on Aug 24 when Zoom – the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, socially distant get-togethers – abruptly went dead.
For roughly two-and-a-half hours Aug 24 morning, many users were unable to load the Zoom website; others could neither host nor join scheduled meetings. Zoom fixed the problem by 11.30am ET, the company reported on its status page.
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