Telecom power planning for natural disasters: Technology implications and alternatives to U.S. Federal Communications Commission´s “Katrina Order” in view of the effects of 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Author

Kwasinski, Alexis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-22 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This work examines the potential value of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission "Katrina order" and discusses benefits and practicality of technology alternatives. The analysis is based on the effects of 2008 hurricanes Dolly, Gustav, and Ike through extensive supportive photographic evidence from on-site surveys. This information is compared with Hurricane Katrina\´s data. The analysis seems to indicate that the "Katrina Order" may not address some important issues, and that other technical approaches may provide a better solution.

Keywords

disasters; planning; storms; telecommunication power supplies; Katrina order; U.S. Federal Communications Commission; hurricanes; natural disasters; telecom power planning; Application specific processors; FCC; Hurricanes; Power supplies; Power system planning; Power system restoration; Storms; Technology planning; Telecommunications; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2009. INTELEC 2009. 31st International

Conference_Location

Incheon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2490-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2491-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2009.5352094

Filename

5352094