Shell's new plan includes using an extra drilling vessel as backup in case of a well blowout, extra support and oil spill response equipment, and more support vessel and aircraft trips to the drilling rigs.
In case of a blackout, the university has a backup generator.
In case of a (S) super node, complete backup of database is replicated to the new node.
A DC motor, Mr. Francis said, runs a bit more slowly, lasts longer and can be wired to run on a backup battery in case of a power outage.
Many of Sinclair's stations are affiliates of Fox, and for those stations, Time Warner Cable has an unusual backup in case of a blackout: a deal with the Fox network that would allow it to pay "a temporary fee for the network feed" of prime-time programs, David Joyce, an analyst at Miller Tabak and Company, said in a report Wednesday.
It's really just for technical backup in case of a proper crisis".
The company will also launch some spare satellites to act as backup in case of a failure.
Each workstation is connected to a computer system with data on thousands of chemicals, and that data is updated each workday to a laptop that each communicator takes home at night; the whole set-up is duplicated in backup locations in case of a problem at the main office.
Resilient admission control admits only so much traffic that admitted traffic can be rerouted without causing congestion on backup paths in case of a likely failures, e.g., single link failures.
Chuck Lowden, the institutes chief engineer, said the nonprofit group was also considering the installation of solar panels and a propane-powered generator to serve as a backup source of power in case of a power failure.
