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Crazy that an airline that is very used to the need for double- and triple-redundancy in the aircraft it flies fails to have any sort of connectivity backup for
by james_pm 4y ago
Crazy that an airline that is very used to the need for double- and triple-redundancy in the aircraft it flies fails to have any sort of connectivity backup for it's ground systems.
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- cactusplant7374 4y agoDoes anyone know if these systems are such high bandwidth that they couldn't run with 4G or 5G temporarily? Perhaps some flights, say 25%, could actually still be processed?
- oarsinsync 4y agoAttaching a 4G modem to the end of an existing enterprise network is a non-trivial feat.
- KMag 4y agoRight. I'm not even sure the interconnect is IP-based. It could very well be a legacy X.25 network. A quick check of Wikipedia says that X.25 is still used in the aviation industry. Routing X.25 over 4G probably involves adding a layer to encapsulate in IP.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThis is Germany. I bet they have at least one company nobody heard of that makes money hand over fist specifically by doing X.25 over IP for industrial plants.
- JaimeThompson 4y agoThey have the legal obligation to have those double/triple redundant systems in their aircraft. Otherwise it is probable they would not have as many safety systems.