In telecommunication, endurability is the property of a system, subsystem, equipment, or process that enables it to continue to function within specified performance limits for an extended period of time, usually months, despite a severe natural or man-made disturbance, such as a nuclear attack, or a loss of external logistic or utility support.
Endurability is not compromised by temporary failures when the local capability exists to restore and maintain the system, subsystem, equipment, or process to an acceptable performance level.
Endurability is the ability to continue to operate for a specified period when equipment and facilities fail sporadically.
The length of time that a system may continue to operate is based on the degree of system redundancy and the availability of necessities such as food and fuel.
In a general nuclear war scenario it is unlikely that any of our major U.S. transmitter sites will endure without their own standby, emergency-power generation, since they depend on the national power grid, which is expected to be down.
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