What caused the Optus outage?
www.smh.com.au
The network went dark at 4am this morning, cutting off millions and throwing hospitals and rail networks into chaos. Here’s what we know.

TL;DR Why is it always the routers?

  • SalvoEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Hubris.

    Also,

    • monolithic infrastructure with reduced redundancy.
    • executives focusing on their own personal issues over their company obligations.
    • to distract shareholders from the terrible financials.