computer was broken and it didn't work.....again.
A matter of semantics I know as the effect is the same but it apparently was not the computer system but the link.
At (0820) this morning, NATS identified a fault with the link
To be simplistic the link is probably analagous with the phone line between the two parts of the system. Usually a business critical system will have a redundant backup (and this one probably does). You can get situations where the link can appear good (carrier is present) but the data is not transferring although error checking should flag this quickly then switch to backup. Obviously if the backup fails as well then......