The recent Starlink service outage has raised yet again the issue of software failures in network outages. While over 80% of enterprises and slightly under two-thirds of operators say the largest source of outage-minutes in their networks is human error, most of these will admit that there’s an underlying question of whether software should have prevented or at least mitigated it. In any case, most of those who don’t cite human error cite software/firmware problems as their prime outage s...
