There’s works in IT & there’s works in IT, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to Broadcast infrastructure, you’re only making a fool out of yourself with all the comments.
I work one step back from this, & know a bit about what happened but not everything, & I wouldn’t divulge anything of note here even if I did know more, but if you saw the IT broadcast infrastructure of TCN or even 5 year old broadcast stuff, it would blow what you know sideways, to the point of you think you know it all, but wouldn’t know where to start if a minor issue arose, let alone a big one like this.
At the start the when was noticed something wasn’t quite right, NPC pulled the connection to TCN & have been working that way since, that’s how they escaped.
The IT systems at TCN are so complex & integrated with everything else, you can’t just stick a backup CD in the drive & start over, things will have to be done in a certain order at a certain time, & most of the critical stuff isn’t running windows 10, while it’s probably based on off the shelf software, many parts of it will likely be custom written, to suit their specific needs & what they want, & TCN Sydney might be the only place in the world who are using it in that configuration?
All these systems would’ve been years in planning & literally took months & months to install, setup, configure & test before use, you’re not going to just reinstall backups & go again in a couple of weeks after something this major.
There was a delay in moving into the new studios from Willoughby because of a number of teething problems & things not talking to other things as expected they should, the broadcast IT systems are so complex & intertwined with other things, it took the TCN engineers a good 3 weeks or more, to get the 2 way radio repeater at Artarmon (for the News helicopter) to talk to other computers properly at the studios, which is essentially micro part to the rest of the system, but that doesn’t indicate the Nine engineers are dumb, just that the system is so complex.
We have some extremely complex control systems across the country on the transmission side too, that are custom designed & built & there are literally 2 engineers in the world who know how they work & how to fix them should something happen, & I’ve no doubt Nine would’ve flown some pretty high up IT engineering staff in from around the world to fix this ASAP for the same reason.
Just because you’ve seen one IT network or software program don’t think you’ve seen them all.
Even if you work in IT in a big office, I think I’d be safe in saying, you don’t know, just how much you don’t know, when it comes to what Nine is dealing with here.
It’s quite possible some equipment has actually been bricked & can’t be restored, & will have to be custom rebuilt from scratch & shipped from OS to replace, which could in itself take months, before everything can be restored to as new or as was?