The key piece of equipment that might have brought down Optus
John DavidsonColumnist
A key piece of network equipment implicated in Optus’ nationwide outage has links to the Netherlands, China and the UK, as well as to a system run by Optus’ owner, Singtel, in Singapore, and the faulty update believed to have triggered the outage may have originated in any of those countries, telecommunications experts say.
But that does not mean Australia’s second-largest carrier will be able to point the finger of blame entirely offshore, the experts say.
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