 
Communication is critical during an emergency
for those affected and first responders. Wireless carriers prepare for
challenging times,
such as this AT&T drill, with its Network Disaster Recovery Team
near Washington DC. 
So this team is really a first strike
Force, if you will, to get the network back online so people can communicate
during a disaster.
AT&T has spent more than six hundred million dollars maintaining and
upgrading its emergency response capabilities.
It houses equipment and locations all around the country that could be quickly
moved to the site of a disaster
and provide communications similar to a central office
It's phenomenal. 
the company conducts up to 4 emergency response drills a year
 
by setting up a virtual mobile network, satellite backhaul,
temporary cell coverage provided by COLTs (or cells on light trucks or trailers)
 
totally self-sufficient power even a high-end tool trailer.
Your own True Value. Exactly, exactly.
and the gem of0 the fleet? Technology trailers with enormous capacity
for temporary network transmission. 
Going through this kind of trailer
we can take the traffic out of Washington DC, outbound on that trailer. Up to 50 AT&T
employees participate in the drills at any one time and they are staged all over
the country.
versatility is emphasized, for example, a person might learn several roles in the
command center,
where incident response, planning, logistics,
operations and finance are all key factors.
We do all the steps to ensure that we have the assets
and the capabilities ready and prepared
to respond to any type of incident or disaster
Incident management gives us a very a well-practiced
and predictable way to manage unpredictable situations.
The drills are critical to effective emergency response and quickly restoring
service
This was the company's 72nd such exercise
and still valuable lessons learned. Preparations is the key
we don't want to learn of issue when we're
in a disaster, right? So we leave here with an inch thick binder.
We're proud of that. We're like, great
there's a whole bunch of things that we are going to fix so that when there is a
disaster
We'll be okay.
