The Update Did Not Go According to Plan: Overloaded Routers Stopped Air Traffic in the US
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A failure of the communications system that blocked flights across the United States on Friday brought back the old air traffic control network of the country, raising questions about its resilience, even in the context of the government spending billions of dollars on its modernization, writes Reuters.
This article was first published on Cedarnews.net. For more breaking news and exclusive reports, visit our website. The disruption, which lasted more than four hours, was the longest nationwide suspension of flights in the country since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This article was first published on Cedarnews. For more breaking news and exclusive reports, visit our official website.
For the first time since September 11, 2001, the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered the complete suspension of take-off at all airports in that country, at a time when there were about 3,500 aircraft in the air, arguing that “a communication problem” had arisen that imposed “extraordinary circumstances and security reasons.” For nearly five hours, chaos prevailed in U.S. air terminals and much of the air transport from o…
A renewal of the private communications network, linking the American air traffic control system caused the rebooting of the system that went en bloc
Transport has targeted a "overload" in the "obsolete" communications network and has asked the US Congress for more funds to renew it.
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