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+-   Irish air traffic contol downed by faulty NIC! on Thursday July 17 2008, @11:22AM Gilby4mPuck

Submitted by Gilby4mPuck on Thursday July 17 2008, @11:22AM
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Gilby4mPuck writes "Thought some of you might get a kick out of this... shame they haven't heard of NIC Teaming :D http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=mhqlaukfcwid "Data showing the location, height and speed of approaching planes disappeared from screens for 10 minutes each time." "Thales ATM stated that in 10 similar air traffic control Centres worldwide with over 500,000 flight hours (50 years), this is the first time an incident of this type has been reported." "[They] confirmed the root cause of the hardware system malfunction as an intermittent malfunctioning network card which consequently overcame the built-in system redundancy," said an IAA spokeswoman" only in Ireland eh!"
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