The Federal Communications Commission will convene a series of field hearings in 2013 to examine challenges to the nation’s communications networks in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and make recommendations to improve network resiliency.
Issues to be examined include backup power, ways to increase levels of sharing between networks and resources during emergencies, and other ways to increase overall resiliency during emergenices.
By some estimates, 25 percent of mobile cell sites were knocked out in areas affected by Superstorm Sandy. Others mobile network resiliency, though.
Friday, November 23, 2012
U.S. FCC Examining Resiliency of U.S. Mobile Networks
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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