Sec. Duffy Says Decades-Old Technology Is to Blame for the FAA’s Ground Stop: It’s an Old System, ‘It Got Overloaded’

RUSH EXCERPT:
DUFFY: "What caused the instability? So it’s very easy We have old, old switches, old routers We use, 1980s, little copper lines It’s an old system that went down It went down everywhere. It got overloaded So, so, what, here right now we’ve opened up the airspace We’ve got our centers and our trade cons operational it would be much and I don’t want to rule out that we didn’t have nefarious activity here That’s Mark Wayne and the cybersecurity team that works with us We were able to deploy fixes to, reduce the overloading on our on our on our switches that we’re able to bring the networks back online and our trade cons and our centers back online. So I think our fix gives us a pretty good indication that it was a legacy network problem that went down And by the way all of the new equipment that we put in None of that went down This is all the old legacy equipment that’s existed forever. By the way None of your networks run on 1980 technology You all got fiber state-of-the-art, high-speed networks that, that cover all of your stations but not the FAA I think the, the American people deserve the same same kind of network that you all use the same kind of connectivity and speed that you all use That’s what we’re asking the Congress to give us"