WP: Nashville bombing is a potent reminder that communications systems remain at risk from attack

A bunch of quotes from former government officials. Not much from industry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nashville-bombing-is-a-pote... Nashville bombing is a potent reminder that communications systems remain at risk from attack [...] Experts applauded the telecommunications giant for responding quickly to the explosion by deploying portable cellular sites to help restore some service. But they were alarmed by the widespread nature of the outages, both in terms of geography as well as the variety of services affected. Key to constructing systems that can withstand attacks and natural disasters — and recover quickly — is avoiding a single point of failure, they said. [...]