Headline is kinda doing the article dirty here because that’s pretty much what it says
“We have old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines. It’s an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded,” he said.
But when pressed by reporters on exactly why those systems would become overwhelmed on an otherwise normal travel day, Duffy did not have a ready answer.
You mean those components made when durability was better than today and could last forever with proper maintenance? Both hardware and software, just because something has a 1980s PCB inside it does not automatically make it shit and more prone to spontaneous failures than modern tech.
Not defending Duffy, just saw a presser shortly ago where he said that this all happened in the critical moment of switching over from copper lines to fiber optic ones, and that one switch then started flooding others with requests or transmissions, can’t remember his exact phrasing there.
Guess that could be their AI slop, but perhaps could be some other network equipment misconfiguration or failure.
Headline is kinda doing the article dirty here because that’s pretty much what it says
You mean those components made when durability was better than today and could last forever with proper maintenance? Both hardware and software, just because something has a 1980s PCB inside it does not automatically make it shit and more prone to spontaneous failures than modern tech.
Not defending Duffy, just saw a presser shortly ago where he said that this all happened in the critical moment of switching over from copper lines to fiber optic ones, and that one switch then started flooding others with requests or transmissions, can’t remember his exact phrasing there.
Guess that could be their AI slop, but perhaps could be some other network equipment misconfiguration or failure.
Yeah, thats not how network switches operate tho
Yeah, I can smell the bullshit fumes coming off this from an aeronautical mile away.