#infrastructure-safety

#infrastructure-safety

NCTA-The Internet & Television Association has released "After the Storm," an eight-minute on-the-ground documentary about cable operators' contributions in the wake of emergencies and disasters. The presentation provides many quick shots of repair and emergency crews working to restore service. The NCTA documentary shows that the work of repairing broadband networks in the wake of a disaster is hard and potentially dangerous, and that cable operators are one of several entities who must rely upon each other.

The mangled wreckage of a yellow tram-like carriage, which carries people up and down a steep hillside in the Portuguese capital, lay where it had left the track and hit a building on Wednesday, just metres from its twin at the bottom of the steep 265-metre slope. The traction cable linking them had snapped. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to the Irish Independent that it is not aware of any Irish citizens affected.