Key messages:
Practitioners can and should implement a range of resilience measures to reduce the probability of network faults and failures. Key measures include, but are not limited to, redundant and risk-informed network design; asset protection, reinforcement, and elevation; monitoring and detection mechanisms; emergency response plans; energy, data, and communication backups; and incident reporting requirements.
Resilience is context specific, and strategies and policies should consider local conditions. Practitioners need to prioritize measures based on risk-informed cost-benefit analysis, technical and feasibility assessments, inclusion objectives, and other considerations.
Resilient telecom infrastructure requires innovative financing models and cross-sector partnerships. Data collection and sharing among different actors can strengthen risk assessments and identification of vulnerability and potential points of network failure.
The guide offers checklists to help practitioners consider key features and functionality when designing, building, and operating resilient telecom infrastructure. It includes a checklist related to the project design phase, such as diagnostics of telecom networks, risk analysis, recovery planning, cost savings, and resilience measurement indicators. It also provides a checklist for the implementation phase, focusing on defining resilience project outputs in requests for proposals, incorporating climate objectives in public-private partnership procurement guidelines, and more.
