Will Power Be the Next Big Issue in Communications and Network Reliability?

Are public networks as reliable as they should be–and whose responsibility is it to improve the situation?

No Jitter (www.nojitter.com)
Justin Castillo & Jeffrey Sheldon

A series of recent natural disasters have raised questions about whether communications networks are as reliable as they should be. Usually, such discussions involve a tug-of-war between regulators and carriers. Now, however, a remark by an FCC Commissioner raises the intriguing possibility that power utilities might be drawn, willingly or otherwise, into the process of improving the reliability and resiliency of telecom networks.