Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?
- Written by: Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
Around 4.05am on Wednesday November 8 2023, Optus suffered a nationwide network outage lasting well into the evening, more than 12 hours later.
Now, Optus has released some information on what happened, stating “we now know what the cause was and have taken steps to ensure it will not happen again”.
As a telecommunications expert, I...
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