{"id":51861,"date":"2026-11-15T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/work-to-replace-old-copper-wire-led-to-the-faas-ground-stop\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T08:34:49","slug":"work-to-replace-old-copper-wire-led-to-the-faas-ground-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/work-to-replace-old-copper-wire-led-to-the-faas-ground-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Work to replace old copper wire led to the FAA\u2019s ground stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/terrence-obrien\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>is the Verge\u2019s weekend editor. He\u2019s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/ox-nQQZVSII\">press conference<\/a> today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/1033489\/faa-ground-stop\">nationwide ground stop<\/a> ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic line at a \u201cremote FAA facility.\u201d The secretary said that this was \u201croutine maintenance,\u201d rather than the result of a major modernization effort. He told reporters that it was \u201csuch an old wire that it was being discontinued, meaning that line was going to get shut down,\u201d necessitating the upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>What wasn\u2019t clear, according to Secretary Duffy, was the root cause of the problem. He said that it could have been faulty hardware, a misconfigured router, or \u201cincompetence\u201d on the part of contractor L3Harris. Regardless, what followed was the newly installed router \u201cflooding\u201d other routers in the Air Traffic Control system. Duffy said that there were \u201cover 1,000 connection attempts every 4 to 5 seconds,\u201d causing disruption to radar feeds and communication with planes.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Duffy also took the opportunity to call on additional funding from Congress for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/1033793\/in-light-of-todays-nationwide-ground-stop\">modernizing the Air Traffic Control system<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/1033898\/faa-ground-stop-sean-duffy-faa-copper-wire\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrence O&#8217;Brien is the Verge\u2019s weekend editor. He\u2019s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. At a press conference today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday\u2019s nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,108,110,326,357],"class_list":["post-51861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}