Orange might be the new black, but it’s not a colour you want to see on your internet company’s dashboard. It’s the new bad.
On Wednesday, multiple panels on Optus’ dashboard were glowing orange, and the specific panels that were glowing orange suggested the company’s nationwide outage was caused by the notoriously troublesome “border gateway protocol” that internet companies around the world use to route internet traffic to its final destination.
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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com
