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Everything fails all the time. The fiber cut was not responsible for this. Lufthansa having woefully inadequate resiliency plans in place with their infrastruct
by JCM9 4y ago
Everything fails all the time. The fiber cut was not responsible for this. Lufthansa having woefully inadequate resiliency plans in place with their infrastructure is to blame.
This is 100% on poor management practices by Lufthansa, but of course they’re going to point the press to that shiny object over there in the form of a fiber cut. The press, as usual, took the bait.
- ta1243 4y agopush out the PR and remember that journalists are not technical people. Had there been multiple cuts in multiple different locations I'd be more sympathetic. Shetland being a recent example [0], where one fibre was cut, then the other one in a completely different direction was also cut. Assuming they had 2 cables and both are broken, whether something as critical as the entire LH booking system deserves more resilience than just 2 geographically diverse cables, I'm not sure -- ultimately it's what's the cost, what's the damage, and what's the likelihood of it happening. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-63364346 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she...