If you’ve got a router as a Single Point of Failure in a nation spanning critical system, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t have a rollback plan that can be executed quickly, you’re doing it wrong.
The contractor may have been incompetent, or the router hardware might have been faulty, or the entire plan may have been wrong, but none of that should have taken down the whole system.
If you’ve got a router as a Single Point of Failure in a nation spanning critical system, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t have a rollback plan that can be executed quickly, you’re doing it wrong.
The contractor may have been incompetent, or the router hardware might have been faulty, or the entire plan may have been wrong, but none of that should have taken down the whole system.