FCC Extends Comment Period on the Impact to Broadband Communications Networks from Equipment Failures or Severe Overloads

The Federal Communications Commission has extended the deadline for comments on the Effects on Broadband Communications Networks Of Damage to or Failure of Network Equipment Or Severe Overload until September 3, 2010. On April 21, 2010, the FCC released a Notice of Inquiry (Notice) in the proceeding, seeking comment to enhance its understanding of the present state of survivability of broadband communications networks. The FCC's goal to explore potential measures to reduce network vulnerability to failures in network equipment or severe overload conditions, such as would occur in natural disasters, pandemics, and other disasters or events that would restrain our ability to communicate.