Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere        
        3.2     Terms defined in this Supplement       
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions             
 6     Introduction             
 7     Overview of network resilience and recovery           
        7.1     General objectives of network resilience and recovery              
        7.2     Approaches to achieving the objectives            
        7.3     Classification and landscape of network resilience and recovery measures       
        7.4     New study areas for network resilience and recovery 
Appendix I – Practices for connecting surviving fibres and building temporary optical infrastructures (with a portable erbium-doped optical fibre amplifier)    
        I.1                   Introduction      
        I.2                   Background and concept             
        I.4                   Considerations concerning the equipment          
        I.5                   Other open issues          
Appendix II – Implementation of a local wireless network based on a  decentralized mesh architecture    
       II.1     Introduction   
       II.2     Background and concept           
       II.3     Usage scenarios            
       II.4     General considerations for networking between nodes             
       II.5     Considerations for individual nodes     
       II.6     Other open issues        
Appendix III – Practices for re-establishing optical infrastructures  with elastic optical network technologies    
      III.1     Introduction   
      III.2     Background and concept          
      III.3     Usage scenarios            
      III.4     Adaptive restoration enhanced with an elastic optical network               
      III.5     General considerations             
      III.6     Other open issues       
Appendix IV – Considerations by the Pacific Islands Telecommunications  Association on disaster relief    
       IV.1     Background   
       IV.2     Concepts and rationale            
       IV.3     Emergency/disaster recovery requirements  
       IV.4     Disaster scenarios       
       IV.5     Restoration levels       
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