Wind gusts exceeding 50mph km/h, combined with the saturated ground, brought down many trees and triggered severe power outages in the area.
Most downtime is caused by power failures in the electric grid rather than in telecommunications networks with outages being rare and fixed within hours.
Certificates that are not renewed and replaced before they expire can cause serious downtime and outages.
We have never had a full and candid account of the outages; that is to say periods when the nuclear power stations have been derated or closed down.
Network and information systems must have effective protection against any kind of intrusion and outages, including attacks carried out by people.
As well as being environmentally friendly, it reduces transmission costs and minimises the impact of outages in the main grids.
The likelihood of breakdowns and outages grows with the geographical complexity of the network.
The risk of an outage is very great indeed.
