AT&T ’s program to range out next - gen vulcanized fiber eye cable across the nation as a replacement for its traditional copper - found telephone mesh is great in most respects — economize for the fact that it wo n’t bear out the politics ’s peculiar telephone set service for internal emergencies .
agree to the Department of Homeland Security , AT&T ’s new fibre connection wo n’t support a priority line , called Government Emergency Telecommunications Service , which is used during disasters or terrorist attacks when phone lines are usually clogged . Essentially , the new AT&T meshing would coerce government to habituate the same — potentially inundated — phone networks as everyone else to communicate , potentially delaying first responder .
GETS has leaven invaluable in the past . It served 10,000 earpiece calls during 9/11 and , along with its wireless twin WPS , 45,000 during Hurricane Katrina . AT&T , though , was plan to democratize its phone electronic connection , and not allow any lines to demand precedency access to the state ’s telephone connection . Jason Healey , a security expert at the Washington - base Atlantic Council , narrate the Washington Post :
“ All the net knows how to do is pass thing from point A to signal B. So if there ’s a denial - of - service attack , and VoIP was importantly throttled back , the cyberspace itself would not get laid that this is the president ’s VoIP call trying to get through . ”
Indeed , follow up a GETS - style system on roughage is n’t utterly straightforward . But the DHS ’s concern have been noted at AT&T , which explains that it is “ mold with DHS and within industry ” to puzzle out the trouble , tally that it want ’s to “ deploy exactly the kind of communications networks [ the DHS ] need . ” Of course it does . [ Washington PostviaEngadget ]
Top picture : After a March 1 , 2007 tornado destroy the high school in Enterprise , Alabama , taking the biography of eight student , state officials signed a law requiring safe room in young K-12 schools.AL.com/Press-Register , Mike Kittrell , via Designing for Disaster
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