Resolved: Some clients are experiencing “connection attempt has timed out” errors when attempting to connect to Cisco VPN.

Incident Discovery Time: 01:49pm on 04/08/2020
Time of Resolution: 04:33pm on 04/08/2020
Services Impacted: Network Services

Description of Impact

Some clients received a “connection attempt has timed out” error when attempting to connect to Cisco VPN.

Incident Description and Resolution

IS&T teams have investigated the issue and found that most issues seem to self resolve.

Additional Information

We are still investigating the VPN environment .
If you continue to have repeated occurrence of this issue, even after restarting, our Network team requests that you send a new email to IT Help Center with a screen shot of the Cisco VPN (AnyConnect) box, and the error message you receive. Thank you.

Previous Update



Incident Discovery Time: 01:49pm on 04/07/2020
Services Impacted: Network Services

Description of Impact

Some clients are experiencing “connection attempt times out” errors when attempting to connect to Cisco VPN.

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating. Next Update: When resolved.


Incident Discovery Time: 01:49pm on 04/07/2020
Services Impacted: Network Services

Description of Impact

Some clients are experiencing “connection attempt times out” errors when attempting to connect to Cisco VPN.

Current Status

IS&T teams have not yet identified the cause of the incident, but are investigating. Next Update: 02:00pm