Telecommunication systems have undergone major changes in the past decade, as they have become more electronic and less electromechanical. Another change has been much greater use of computer-generated data. These… Continue reading Changing Technology Makes Telecommunications More Susceptible to Power Quality Disasters

Microwave over the past 10 years has primarily been marketed for alternate access or bypass services to private users and common carriers in the local loop. While alternate access is… Continue reading Microwave: An Alternative to Route Diversity in the Local Loop

Persuading a company to adopt a communications disaster recovery plan can be a feat in itself. Despite the importance of secure communications, organizations often are hesitant to implement such programs… Continue reading Delaware Group Protects Its Communications Systems Economically Through Alternate Local Access

The manhunt began in the late hours of December 9, 1991. The suspect had gone on a murderous rampage that left a sheriff, two deupties and the wife of another… Continue reading Brought to Justice: Satellite Telecom Assists Law Officials in Capture of Mass Murderer

For many businesses, from airline reservation centers to stockbrokers, the telephone is their lifeline. But businesses are quickly discovering just how fragile that lifeline can be. The dependence of the… Continue reading Making The Connection

You probably have heard the story told by the old poem, but let me retell it as accurately as I can recall it. It goes like this:For the want of… Continue reading For The Want of a Nail…

Ever notice how famous celebrities frequently pass away in threes? If we agree on that statement, then we can say that AT&T’s network has indeed achieved star status. It recently… Continue reading Another Day, Another Crash

On Tuesday, September 17, a broken rectifier in an AT&T switching station generator in Manhattan shut down New York City’s long-distance phone service for six hours. Because the failure took… Continue reading AT&Ts Failure Raises Questions

Channel extension is a relatively new technology that can be used to solve some age-old data processing problems. Ideally, a computer environment should have centralized control and operation of the… Continue reading Channel Extension Can Help Speed Recovery

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) understands the impact that being so close to a major fault line can have. With terrifying lessons learned from the historic earthquake of 1989,… Continue reading Mirror, Mirror on the Fault…What is the fastest Way To the Vault?