(The actual easiest method is to install the conduit or direct burial cable with tracer wire)
And of course there are marker posts that say "buried fiber optic cable do not dig".
Or is it that these ATC networks are their own air-gapped network with less redundancy? That just doesn't add up. Or maybe there was only one line going to the ATC, with no multiple "ISPs" like a datacenter would have?
* There is supposed to be a primary and a secondary link, in this case the primary failed and the fail-over also failed. It's unclear from the reporting if they were damaged in the same incident or if the failover was not tested or monitored adequately.
The Philadelphia TRACON site has been notoriously unreliable and was supposedly improved in 2025, it's also unclear if these issue actually could stem from that implementation.
That seems like an extremely foolhardy thing to do.
It seems like it would present a less-chaotic solution than that provided by having no data communications at all.
Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.
I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?
A lot of people are incompetent.
right. of course, no ones going to cut corners on the safe use of AI and secure infrastructure in this administration.
sc68cal•41m ago
https://www.airwaysmag.com/new-post/faa-smart-first-deployme...
whatever1•28m ago
Good luck to all of us.
macintux•6m ago