SEV3 — ElevatedCLOSEDInfrastructureUnverified21d ago

Cox AS7843 Critical Network Disruption — Richmond, VA

A Sev 10 ping/slash24 alert indicates a critical network failure affecting Cox Communications (AS7843) in Richmond, VA. Richmond carries a significant BPO and knowledge-worker footprint (~130,000 seats combined), making connectivity disruptions across Cox infrastructure a direct risk to service delivery, remote agent connectivity, and contact center operations. WFM leaders should assess agent population on Cox residential or business circuits and prepare contingency staffing or failover protocols if the outage broadens.

Impact Summary

A Sev 10 ping/slash24 alert indicates a critical network failure affecting Cox Communications (AS7843) in Richmond, VA. Richmond carries a significant BPO and knowledge-worker footprint (~130,000 seats combined), making connectivity disruptions across Cox infrastructure a direct risk to service delivery, remote agent connectivity, and contact center operations. WFM leaders should assess agent population on Cox residential or business circuits and prepare contingency staffing or failover protocols if the outage broadens.

Domain
Infrastructure
Region
Richmond, US, US
Opened By
watchkeeper
Jun 20, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Validated By
auto
Jun 20, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Event Cluster
1 event
OVIX Score
10.0
Closed
watchkeeper-auto(resolved)
Jun 22, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC

Timeline3

Incident openedby watchkeeperJun 20, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Declared from 1 signals. OVIX 10. News 1. BPO 2. High-confidence (auto).
Severity validatedby autoJun 20, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Auto-validated: SEV3 per policy.
Incident closedby watchkeeperJun 22, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Auto-closed: no new material events within 36h for this incident.

Evidence / Why this?

Traced to source — read-only
Evidence is not yet available for this incident. Older incidents predate the traceability layer; newly declared incidents will show why they were declared, why their severity was set, geo provenance, and their sources here.

Related Signals1

[Richmond] infrastructure 10.0 — Cox (AS7843) — critical alert via ping-slash24sentinel21d ago

Affected Regions

Richmond