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| Titel |
Hanging on the line – on the need to assess the risk to global submarine telecommunications infrastructure – an example of the Hawaiian "bottleneck" and Australia |
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D. Dominey-Howes, J. Goff |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 9, no. 2 ; Nr. 9, no. 2 (2009-04-17), S.605-607 |
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250006725
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-9-605-2009.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| National economies are becoming increasingly dependent on
the global telecommunications system – and in particular, its submarine
cable infrastructure. We note that a variety of natural hazard processes are
capable of damaging and destroying this infrastructure, both in deep water
and at the coast. Some places within the global telecommunications system
are already known to be bottlenecks or "choke points". Hawaii is just such a
choke point and interestingly, Hawaii is also affected by numerous large
magnitude natural hazard processes. Any damage to the submarine
telecommunications infrastructure routed through Hawaii could result in
significant impacts on the electronic flow of data and voice traffic,
negatively affecting dependent economies such as Australia. We propose that
proper risk assessments be undertaken at all bottlenecks in the global
telecommunications system affected by natural hazards (such as tsunami). We
use Hawaii as an example of the sort of research that should be undertaken. |
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