by Regis J. "Bud" Bates (1992, 157 pages)

Addressing the actual issues confronting the network user and/or system manager, this guide covers the myriad of technologies currently available for disaster recovery planning, management and the restoration process for telecommunications.

Each chapter is an in-depth survey of key aspects in network management - their cost efficiency in terms of dollars, human resources and risk as they impact the entire network.

The guide offers methods and approaches to:
   Understand why the disaster recovery plan is necessary
   Evaluate network monitoring
   Effectively sell it to management
   Analyze design options and cost versus technical features
   Maintain current operations, make upgrades or go to a new system
   And, put it all together.

Disaster Recovery Planning offers consolidated information in a single source to help communications professional understand the options available and to implement them successfully.