Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outage - CNA
Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outage - CNA
www.channelnewsasia.com Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outage
SYDNEY: Australia's second-largest telco, Optus, had no crisis plan when a network-wide outage left nearly half the country without phone or internet for 12 hours, an executive told parliament
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Inside the company a chorus of voices deriding over-provisioned network hardware and a lack of investment in infrastructure. Publicly; claims of a freak accident which could never have been foreseen and which no one could have prepared for.
Who to believe?
As a network engineer, 100% garbage infrastructure that's not redundant, EoL, and definitely over subscribed.