"A contractor had been working on replacing a section of the system’s old and discontinued copper wire with new fiber wire in a remote location on Friday afternoon, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Saturday. That kind of work has been happening across the country and across industries for decades, he said.
But on Friday, the router in that location started overloading the air traffic control system and causing intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds. When they couldn’t quickly locate the cause of the overload, they decided to keep flights grounded nationwide."
Probably a coincidence. The SAVE system had been working just fine in a limited test for 2 months and worked for 3 days at the national level.
https://apnews.com/article/us-flights-grounded-back-to-normal-7dce2343ceb56332aa7946a27fcae562
"A contractor had been working on replacing a section of the system’s old and discontinued copper wire with new fiber wire in a remote location on Friday afternoon, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Saturday. That kind of work has been happening across the country and across industries for decades, he said.
But on Friday, the router in that location started overloading the air traffic control system and causing intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds. When they couldn’t quickly locate the cause of the overload, they decided to keep flights grounded nationwide."