No doubt trying to deflect attention from Air Space Intelligence, the company that donated a large amount to his son-in-law's campaign. ASI received an $876 million dollar no-bid contract to develop the SMART system which was reportedly deployed shortly before the ground stop. [0]
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in Friday's briefing that new security patches introduced into the older system appeared to "overwhelm" its routers.
The FAA's preliminary investigation has led the agency to believe the issue was limited to Cisco 600 series routers that were manufactured between 2001 and 2006, senior government sources told CBS News. The sources said the faulty equipment has been identified and isolated.
The sources said the routers essentially got overwhelmed and started feeding out-of-sync data packets into the larger air traffic control system. That causes static over voice communication lines and can cause screens to flash or go to black.
Sources told CBS News they are receiving conflicting information about the cause of the issue. Multiple sources said Friday that an update to the private communications network that connects the U.S. air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage.
> L3Harris was replacing a copper line with fiber at a remote Federal Aviation Administration site Friday when a router flooded other routers with more than 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds, disrupting communications with aircraft and some radar feeds, Duffy said during a briefing.
No doubt trying to deflect attention from Air Space Intelligence, the company that donated a large amount to his son-in-law's campaign. ASI received an $876 million dollar no-bid contract to develop the SMART system which was reportedly deployed shortly before the ground stop. [0]
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in Friday's briefing that new security patches introduced into the older system appeared to "overwhelm" its routers.
The FAA's preliminary investigation has led the agency to believe the issue was limited to Cisco 600 series routers that were manufactured between 2001 and 2006, senior government sources told CBS News. The sources said the faulty equipment has been identified and isolated.
The sources said the routers essentially got overwhelmed and started feeding out-of-sync data packets into the larger air traffic control system. That causes static over voice communication lines and can cause screens to flash or go to black.
Sources told CBS News they are receiving conflicting information about the cause of the issue. Multiple sources said Friday that an update to the private communications network that connects the U.S. air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage.
> L3Harris was replacing a copper line with fiber at a remote Federal Aviation Administration site Friday when a router flooded other routers with more than 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds, disrupting communications with aircraft and some radar feeds, Duffy said during a briefing.