Resilient Telecommunications
Resilient communications
Resilient communications are able to absorb or mitigate the effects of a
disruptive challenge. A disruptive challenge is an event or circumstances
that disrupt normal life. These can be natural events such as flooding, or
may have occurred through human intervention such as an electrical power
failure or terrorist incident. A number of generic challenges to business
continuity have been identified through the
national risk assessment capability [External
website]. Drawing on experience and risk assessment work we believe
that these generic challenges, adapted as necessary to local circumstances,
should be used as the framework for testing the resilience of responder
communications. Elsewhere, we provide
advice on how to set about enhancing the resilience of
telecommunications.
