Inside the Network That Prevented Prison Riots

You know that moment when the alerts start flooding in, and your entire network goes dark? Systems down. Phones silent. Operations frozen. Now imagine that happening inside a prison. Six hundred of them. One outage away from chaos. In this conversation, Max Clark sits down with Oliver Maxwell from APX Net, Inc who had to build a network that literally keeps the peace. They get into what happens when multi-carrier complexity meets mission-critical uptime, how “better internet” became a safety system, and the hard lessons from running connectivity in places most carriers won’t touch. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the problems you’re managing today might not cause riots — but they could still cost you everything when the network fails. ⚡ Don’t scroll past this one — the next outage you prevent might be your own.