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Title: Communications Infrastructure Security, Access


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  • Communications Infrastructure Security, Access
    Restoration

Bruce Allan, Chairman November 6, 2003
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Charter of CommunicationsInfrastructure Working
Group
  • Address the risks and vulnerabilities of our
    nation's television, radio, multi-channel video,
    microwave, and satellite infrastructure in the
    event of terrorist attack, natural disaster or
    other manmade catastrophe.
  • Assess current security and restoration
    capabilities to identify best practices, needed
    enhancements, and recommended changes.
  • Review current media infrastructure redundancy
    within and between each industry segment.
  • Evaluate the impact of digital technology on
    security, infrastructure redundancy, and service
    restoration.

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Working Group Organization
Task Forces Chair Prevention Glenn
Reitmeier, NBC Restoration Bob Seidel,
CBS Future Technologies/ Ira Goldstone,
Tribune Digital Solutions
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Media Survey
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Media Survey Key Findings
  • Have Rehearsed Their Disaster Recovery Plan
  • Have a Disaster Recovery Plan

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Radio TV Cable
  • Have Reciprocity Agreements with Other Local
    Media Companies
  • Updated Disaster Recovery Plan After 9/11

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Media Survey Key Findings
  • Have Secure Access

Transmission Site
News Origination Facilities
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Radio
TV
Cable
Radio
TV
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Media Survey Key Findings
  • Have a Backup Transmitter and Antenna Capability
  • Have an Alternate Site for News/Programming
  • Can activate backup communication links to
    transmitters in 15 minutes

  • Back up capabilities - Cable
  • 76 of cable respondents receive their primary
    signal feed from over-the air broadcasters with
  • limited backup capability
  • 62 of the cable systems surveyed have redundant
    routes from headends to hubs
  • 88 of cable subscribers are served by headends
    that have access to the internet

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Radio
TV
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Best Practice RecommendationsPrevention
  • Prevention Radio, Local Television Cable
    Television
  • Physical Security
  • Appropriate physical security, augmented by
    security personnel and/or video surveillance at
    all key facilities.
  • Backup Power
  • Diverse power grid sources
  • Backup power at key facilities
  • Redundant Communications
  • Robust and redundant communications for
    external/remote news sources
  • Backup signal feeds to primary satellite sites.
  • Backup signal feeds to transmitter/hub sites.
  • Redundant Facilities
  • Broadcasters with local news origination should
    have emergency origination capability at a second
    location (e.g. backup studio, ENG truck).
  • Geographically diverse backup transmitter access,
    if feasible.
  • Collaborate with colleagues and government
    authorities to increase site diversity and
    redundancy.

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Best Practice RecommendationsPrevention
  •  Collaborative Planning
  • All Local Media (e.g., Television Broadcasters,
    Cable Operators and Radio Broadcasters) in a
    market should collaborate to increase their
    collective geographic diversity and to establish
    redundant interconnections capable of
    supporting emergency operations.
  • Television broadcasters should examine the
    possibility of using DTV facilities as backup for
    analog.
  • Cable systems and local broadcasters in a market
    should work jointly to develop prevention
    plans.
  • Cable systems should have some capability to
    obtain news and information in an emergency
    situation. (May include ENG/SNG trucks, satellite
    links or signal reception from local television
    broadcasters.)
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  • Radio broadcasters should work with television
    broadcasters and cable operators to establish
    diverse primary and backup signal feeds from
    local television broadcasters and cable systems
    for use in emergency situations.
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Restoration Working Group
  • The Restoration Task Force has been charged with
    assessing the communications industrys ability
    to restore broadcast service following a national
    disaster or terrorist attack
  • First hand experience in responding to disaster
    situations has provided the basis for many of the
    recommended Restoration Best Practices
  • Hurricane Andrew (1992)
  • World Trade Center (2001)
  • N.E. Power Grid Failure (2003)
  • The quickest and most effective restoration
    process results from broadcasters having
    redundant facilities, emergency back-up power,
    and a well prepared and rehearsed recovery plan.

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Best Practice RecommendationsRestoration
  • Restoration
  • Encourage radio and television broadcasters,
    cable companies, direct broadcast satellite (DBS)
    and digital satellite radio providers to develop
    and implement written disaster recovery plans to
    deal with short-term disruptions and catastrophic
    failure in primary transmission and studio
    facilities.
  • Urge local stations and other media organizations
    to update their disaster recovery plans as events
    warrant, and regularly conduct emergency drills
    at least once annually.
  • Establish market-by-market restoration committees
    consisting of all FCC licensees, MSOs and other
    electronic media including television, radio,
    cable DBS, digital satellite radio and
    telecommunications carriers.

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Best Practice RecommendationsRestoration
  • Implement studio and transmitter operational
    reciprocity arrangements to ensure signal
    availability in all markets.
  • Develop plans for utilization of ENG trucks as
    emergency alternate studios, with microwave links
    at transmitter sites for both analog and digital
    services.
  • Create plans for alternate paths to cable
    headends. Alternate emergency distribution paths
    would include
  • DTV transmitter to cable headend, down converted
    to NTSC.
  • SNG to DBS to cable headend and DBS to homes
  • Cross-connecting cable systems.
  • Opening local-to-local DBS
  • Opening local-to-local DBS service to all
    subscribers on an emergency basis.
  • Low data rate Internet links.
  • Portable microwave links.

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Best Practice RecommendationsRestoration
  • Develop recovery timelines in situations where
    backup facilities exist. Stations with backup
    facilities should be prepared to provide service
    within 15 minutes of loss of primary facility.
  • Propose that the Federal Emergency Management
    Agency (FEMA) administer emergency response
    broadcast equipment packages.
  • Regional storage depots for use only in emergency
    situations.
  • Mobile recovery systems to include
  • VHF, UHF, AM FM transmission units.
  • Mobile generators.
  • 500-foot 100-foot tower sections.
  • Establish federal preemption authority during
    declared national emergencies for replacement
    towers and other essential broadcast and content
    delivery needs.
  • Restore broadcast telecommunications.
  • Satellite phones to be available.
  • Stations encouraged to establish amateur radio
    facility in studio.
  • Utilize portable handheld units and alternate 450
    MHz communications repeater sites.

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Best Practice Recommendations
  • Future Technologies/Digital Solutions
  • Leverage existing digital television tool-set,
    including over-the-air, cable and satellite, to
    develop new emergency notification standards and
    practices.
  • Use of multiple video and audio channels.
  • Channel designation.
  • Close captioning.
  • ACAP middleware standard.

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Working Group Calendar
Sep-02
Dec-02
Mar-03
Jun-03
Sep-03
Dec-03
Jun-02
National
Regional
Metropolitan
Define Work
Tampa Model City Workshop Dec 2nd
Prevention
Plan
Review
Review
Review
Develop
Evaluate
Document Current Restoration
RestorationPlan
Restoration
Capabilities/Deficiencies
Redundancy
Digital
Design
Review Digital Landscape

Finalize Recommendations
Solutions
Survey
Identify Issues/Solutions
Work Group
Aug 7th
Dec 11th
March 19th
June 18th
Sept 17th
Meetings
Cinti
Wash
Wash
Wash
Wash
Chairman's
Monthly Conference Calls
Meetings
Task Force
Scheduled by Task Force Chairs
Meetings
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Next Steps
  • Participate in Tampa Model City Workshop
  • Finalize national level, DBS, and Satellite radio
    assessments
  • Develop disaster recovery plan template
  • Expand the pool of ideas and prototypes of
    digital applications
  • Complete final report by February 29th.

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