BROWSING: network resilience

A central office flood and a 2019 bombing prompted AT&T to rethink resilience When AT&T was in the running for the FirstNet contract to run a national network for first responders, Chris Sambar—now AT&T's president of network—was the head of AT&T's FirstNet team. He said...

AT&T is spending around $120 million annually on network resiliency work As Hurricane Ian spun toward the Florida coast in late September, AT&T was making some risky calculations about where to stage pallets of equipment and tractor-trailers full of generators that would help power its...

A new information portal makes the climate-change-related data that AT&T uses to inform its own network resiliency planning available to communities so that they can access free, sophisticated data on anticipated local weather and climate-related hazards. The Climate Rick & Resilience (ClimRR) data...

While prevention is still important, enabling cohesive architectures and establishing resiliency and recovery tactics is becoming far more critical.

There is bipartisan support at the Federal Communications Commission for making voluntary rules around network resiliency into enforceable ones. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is circulating new draft rules that are aimed at helping to reduce cellular network outages after natural disasters, largely by codifying an...

2020 was a tough year for humans -- and for networks. As daily lives were interrupted and people stayed home rather than travel or gather for work, school or entertainment, there was an accompanying flip-flop in network traffic patterns: Far more reliance on a...