Disaster Management in Telecommunications, Broadcasting and...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 482 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition May 2, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471608122
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471608127
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.7 pounds

Product Description
Advances in communications technology continue to accelerate. To maintain the competitive edge in such a dynamic environment, today's managers, professionals and engineers can expect to be challenged daily to keep pace with the technical and oganizational issues, opportunities and threats surrounding the operation and management of any communications system. The purpose of this book is to enable these people to detect, understand, handle and control a communications system during a crisis.

- Integrated use of real-world examples.
- Numerous case studies illustrate how actual disasters are detected, studies, and successfully controlled.
- shows the procedures required for the smooth and safe operation of telecommunications, broadcasting and computer systems during a crisis.

Aimed at helping operating and design engineers, IT managers and technicians in telecommunications networks and broadcasting to meet the challenges they face in their endeavour to safeguard against disaster. Essential reading for postgraduate courses in electrical engineering.

Book Info
Enables managers, professionals and engineers in communications technology to detect, understand and control a communications system during a crisis. Features numerous case studies illustrating the actual detection of disasters, and smooth and safe operating procedures for computer, broadcasting and telecommunications systems. DLC: Telecommunication systems--Planning.

Reader Reviews
This book is written to technical as well as non-technical readers. Thus the text balances the technical issues with the administrative, financial, and managerial issues. This theme is punctuated by:- - Presentation of a thorough and detailed discussion of the theories of disaster management - An integrated use of real-world examples throughout the text - Use of feature articles material from leading telecommunications companies & common carriers, highlighting the issues surrounding disaster & crisis management, in a broad spectrum of telecommunications organizations - Case studies illustrating how actual disasters were detected, studied, confronted & successfully controlled (or otherwise) - Lessons learned from the different examples & case studies presented The book explains the different theories of disaster management, and after that discuss its applications in the telecommunications, Broadcasting and computer systems. Thus it will be useful to all those who are concerned with disaster management as a subject. The book relies heavily on case studies to explain the ideas presented in the general presentation. A special section is devoted to the presentation of 12 real-world case studies, in the fields of telecommunications, Radio/TV broadcasting and computer systems in addition to a step-by-step solution of another two case studies. Yet throughout the book 12 other case studies, about disasters that I have personally encountered and managed, are presented The main idea behind the stress given to case studies is to make the reader think about the case, and then to arrive at an understanding of the WHYs and HOWs, before reading the analysis. This concept is presented in the following format:- 1- Background Information: (Present state) 2- Problem Faced:(Symptoms & Early warning signs) 3- Action Taken:(assuming no previous knowledge of Disaster Management) 4- Discussion: Given in the form of questions that leads the reader logically & systematically to discover what went wrong & what should have been done. 5- Analysis: This presents, in a way, the most probable course of action that should have been taken & a clarification of the cause of the trouble. Finally, this book documents the experience that I gained through working for more than forty years in the field with the United nations (ITU), telecommunications, Broadcasting and computer organizations, where I faced a lot of disasters that I had to detect, identify, analyze, and solve. Most of the time I was successful thank God, while in some cases I was not that fortunate. It is hoped that this book will enable the reader to profit from my experience, and avoid those places where I stumbled.