FCC Releases Resiliency Best Practices for Hurricane Season
Communications companies, local governments, utilities and other respondents to communication outages should prioritize protecting cable and fiber lines, publicize individual action plans and provide mutual aid to one another, the FCC Public Safety Bureau said Thursday in a public notice…
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on cross-sector cooperation for hurricane season. The notice was based on findings gathered during the agency’s hurricane season resiliency roundtable July 7. “Protecting cable and fiber lines is critical to disaster recovery," it said. “Damage to these networks can cripple communications, delays emergency response, disrupts rescue operations, and cuts off essential services like healthcare, transportation, and banking -- severing lifelines for affected communities.” The notice also recommended that stakeholders establish relationships across industries before disasters happen, prepare centralized response plans and lines of communication, and learn the infrastructure and lexicons of other sectors. “Establishing relationships between stakeholders is crucial to effectively preparing for and responding to disasters.”