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As the National Hurricane Center has declared a hurricane warning for the East Coast of the United States, Sprint today said it is prepared for the potential impacts of Hurricane Earl. As it does for every impending tropical storm or hurricane, Sprint is staging backup generators, network engineers, emergency personnel and other critical assets in strategic locations along the Atlantic Coast to manage potential service impacts.
In 2009, Sprint invested more than $370 million in network enhancements for hurricane-prone states along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. These investments included adding new cell sites to the Nationwide Sprint(R) Network and Nextel(R) National Network, installing hundreds of permanent generators for critical wireless sites and network facilities, as well as investment in additional portable generators.
As a standard practice, Sprint has permanent generators at all of its wireless and wireline switches -- the network components where wireless data and calls are routed to their final destination. In addition, permanent generators are installed at all of the company's network Points of Presence (POP), the facilities where traffic enters and leaves the company's global IP network, which facilitates dedicated data services for Sprint's corporate and government customers, as well as other critical communications. These backup generators have automatic cutover switches to immediately neutralize any loss of commercial power.
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