Interesting explanation about what really went wrong with Optus last week.
The short version: it looks like Optus doesn’t control its own core network. Its parent company Singapore Telecom does. Optus just resells it.
Which is why Optus’ CEO was so vague about what the issue actually was: she was protecting her bosses in Singapore.
@ajsadauskas @technology How reliable is this web site? Should we be concerned that they can’t spell the word “Exclusive”?
@danielbowen @ajsadauskas @technology
I *think* it was spun out of ComputerWorld.
The author’s bio is reasonably impressive.
Yet this is my favourite part:The suspense is killing me…
@zl2tod @danielbowen @technology And it’s now confirmed by The Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/identity-of-third-party-who-brought-down-optus-network-revealed-20231114-p5ejy1.html
@ajsadauskas @technology I could have told you that, and I do DevOps from NZ. I had to trace a strange network fault for an Australian client once and found that it was all SingTel.
They still put that in employment contracts?
I suspected this was the case the moment I heard about it and the length of time it took to fix it. Typical outage for stuff managed out of SE Asia.
