GoKawiilTwo newly installed HPE Juniper routers triggered FAA's nationwide ground stop
The Wall Street Journal reports that a nationwide FAA ground stop last Friday was caused by two newly installed Juniper routers, made by HP Enterprise, located at an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Arkansas and a radar site in Amarillo, Texas. The routers began broadcasting excessive data across the FAA's aging communications network, overloading it and disrupting air traffic control's ability to communicate with pilots. The outage did not affect onboard collision-avoidance systems, but it forced only the third nationwide ground stop in FAA history, after 9/11 and a 2023 NOTAM system failure.