They hooked up new ai tech, bragged about it the day before lol. Now they are trying to blame the old tech for being overloaded by the new ai tech, as opposed to admitting it was the new stuff that caused the failure.
They hooked up the old system decades ago, the last time they had to ground all flights was 09/11/2001, and it wasn’t because anything went wrong with the ATC system.
2 months in regional areas and 3 days nationwide is not really impressive in any way except for how quickly their shit fucked up the existing functional and reliable system that has worked without fail for decades.
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.
So what flooded the interface? Something definitely changed.
They hooked up new ai tech, bragged about it the day before lol. Now they are trying to blame the old tech for being overloaded by the new ai tech, as opposed to admitting it was the new stuff that caused the failure.
You mean the old tech that has been fine for a long time? That old tech got overloaded?
Lmao. These people think we’re stupid…
Yep, had the gall to then demand $50 billion dollars or it will happen again.
To upgrade the infrastructure or to build the Blackwall?
To line their personal pockets with
Unfortunately most people will buy this…
They hooked SMART up 3 days before the shutdown, and over 2 months ago in DC and FL.
They hooked up the old system decades ago, the last time they had to ground all flights was 09/11/2001, and it wasn’t because anything went wrong with the ATC system.
2 months in regional areas and 3 days nationwide is not really impressive in any way except for how quickly their shit fucked up the existing functional and reliable system that has worked without fail for decades.
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.