Emergency telecommunications service
The telecommunications emergency service (FND) was responsible for telecommunications connections in the event of a disaster or defense within the Deutsche Bundespost (later also within Deutsche Telekom ) .
For this task, the telecommunications emergency service had warehouses distributed across Germany with extensive material such as emergency generators , trucks and telecommunications equipment. Each post office directorate had several locations in its directorate area. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the OPD Cologne had a special task: It had to ensure that the federal government was able to act in an emergency. Two large telecommunications emergency service teams were therefore set up in the area of the telecommunications offices in Düren and Aachen . On the one hand in the village of Baal , on the other hand in Jülich right next to Deutsche Welle (meanwhile dissolved). These localities were chosen because they were located away from the cities endangered in the event of a defense.
In 1990, when the GDR acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany, parts of the emergency telecommunications service were used to meet the great demand for telecommunications, in particular for new main lines and east-west connections: even before the actual completion of German unification on October 3, 1990, the Volkskammer election of the GDR in March, for the Leipzig spring fair and for the East German local elections in May, the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom supported with special reserve facilities for the telecommunications emergency service. Remote telephone connections, data connections and power paths for Btx and video conference connections were set up. After the unification, further remote telephone connections, radio links and 15 manually operated special exchanges were provided at the headquarters of the state governments / telecommunications offices with the help of the emergency service to temporarily cover the urgent communication needs between the new and old federal states.
With the privatization of the telecommunications system and the dissolution of the telecommunications offices, the emergency telecommunications service was handed over to the responsible technical branches of Deutsche Telekom and continued under the name “Disaster Recovery Management” (DRM). Nowadays, DRM is not only used in disasters and emergencies, but also when a large number of communication links have to be provided, for example during the 2006 soccer World Cup or television broadcasts (e.g. when broadcasting Wetten, dass ..? ) . It is also often used at major events to increase capacity in the mobile communications sector.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Schott: Post and Telecommunication, Telecommunication: Post Reform - Deutsche Bundespost TELEKOM 1990. Accessed on September 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Deutsche Telekom AG: Deutsche Telekom: Disaster Recovery Management: Telekom is so fit for disasters. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .