Building Resilient Networks

The hearing will examine ways in which the federal government can support deployment of resilient, redundant, and secure broadband and telecommunications infrastructure, and review the lessons learned from outage incidents. The hearing will focus on gaps revealed by these incidents and legislative proposals to improve network resiliency and reliability.

Witnesses:

• Mr. Harold Feld, Senior Vice President, Public Knowledge
• Mr. Jonathan Adelstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wireless Infrastructure Association
• Mr. Denny Law, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer, Golden West Telecommunications
• Mr. Jeff Johnson, Chief Executive, Western Fire Chiefs Association