Converse of subject

• affect: At least four Internet service providers are being affected by the outage.

Converse of object

• suffer: I'll let my hosts explain: As you are probably aware, we suffered a serious outage of all services today.

• cause: He says investigators do not yet know what caused the first outage.

• experience: During the next three years more and more areas of the world will experience these outages and nobody will be able to explain why.

• follow: Monday, June 26 2006 Update following power outage Library services have now been restored.

• report: A large proportion of FEIs ( 43 % ) appeared unaware of the list of major outages reported on the UKERNA web site.

• have: During this time I have had one brief outage.

Preposition: for

• maintenance: Planned outages for system maintenance can also impact business performance.

Adjective modifier

• electical: In the areas struck by hurricane Frances, many offices have been switched to generator or battery power because of extensive electical outages.

• unscheduled: Our email and web services are subject to scheduled and unscheduled outages which will impact your ability to use our services.

• unplanned: The cost of an unplanned outage can range between £ 100K - £ 250K a day.

• planned: A logon message is in place on the system advising users of the planned outage.

• widespread: There were three widespread outages this quarter, lasting an average of 140 minutes each.

• unexpected: She thought about unexpected power outages, about wandering the wrong way in pitch darkness.

Noun used with modifier

• power: The price of a power outage also every time quickly adding more.

• electricity: And, were it not outed, how could there be electricity outage?

• network: What impacts network outage, server crash, or disk failure have on a business?

• server: Temporary server outages are planned for every weekend in January.

• maintenance: I worked on a major maintenance outage at Little Barford Power Station in Cambridgeshire.

• communication: The entire queuing system, in addition, includes features designed to work around partial communications outages in the network.