'We are not interested in the possibilities of failure - they do not exist,' Queen Victoria once said.
There are possibilities of failure in a telecommunications network, yet the network cannot be allowed to fail - it's too important. So it has to be made failure-proof.
Building a network that can withstand damage, disaster and technical failure is one of the biggest engineering challenges in telecommunications.
It means concentrating on 'resilience' - in other words, designing systems that are hardened against accident and damage - and...
Extraordinary efforts and stratagems are needed to keep the vital telecomm structure operational and resilient in wartime.
This was never truer than during the Second World War when Britain was under intense aerial bombardment for almost five years. Afterwards, the Cold...
The look of the network has changed radically over the decades.
In the beginning, when private companies were providing telegraph and telephone services, there was no recognisable 'house style'.
That changed when the GPO took over from the 1890s. The Post Office...