Resilient telecommunications infrastructure: a practitioner's guide

This guide provides recommendations for practitioners in designing, preparing, and implementing resilient telecom infrastructure projects, since connectivity drives economic development and underpins critical services in the aftermath of disastrous weather events or earthquakes.

Major recommendations include, for instance, resilience-building measures, such as risk analysis, redundancy, backup power, customization, and disaster planning, are important for strengthening the resilience of telecom infrastructure deployments. While no single intervention will make telecom infrastructure fully resilient, investment in a range of coordinated actions can reduce the probability of failure and enable operators to maintain acceptable service in the face of increasing climate hazards.