January 29th started off as a normal morning, at 10:01am, a FPL substation located on Datura Street & Quadrill Avenue expereienced a failure which resulted in the cascading blackout of power in Downtown West Palm Beach, FL. The outage lastest for over 45 minutes while FPL corrected the issue. Power was restored to the Clematis street district around 11:00am and by 2:00pm for the rest of the affected area.
CLEAR LINK Networks maintained 100% uptime and uninterrupted service during the FPL outage. "As a result of routine testing of all primary and redundant systems, none of our co-location customers even knew the power was out" said CEO Sean Brown.