Critical infrastructure is composed of the basic services that we have come to depend on, and are necessary to support our society and ensure national stability. It includes transportation, communications, power distribution systems, banking and financial institutions, and basic government operations, including law enforcement, fire services and the military. Loss of, or damage to, one of these services can have significant consequences, such as an event that shuts down our communications systems. Communications is a valuable part of all infrastructure components, and loss of this one piece can hamper the operation of the rest. It can have grave consequences if emergency services cannot be reached in a life-threatening situation. In a daily-life situation, we might not be able to make a phone call to order pizza because the telephone service is out, while at the same time we're missing the latest episode of CSI because the television transmission facilities are down.
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