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dbo:abstract The British Telecom microwave network was a network of point-to-point microwave radio links in the United Kingdom, operated at first by the General Post Office, and subsequently by its successor BT plc. From the late 1950s to the 1980s it provided a large part of BT's trunk communications capacity, and carried telephone, television and radar signals and digital data, both civil and military. Its use of line-of-sight microwave transmission was particularly important during the Cold War for its resilience against nuclear attack. It was rendered obsolete, at least for normal civilian purposes, by the installation of a national optical fibre communication network with considerably higher reliability and vastly greater capacity. BT remains one of the largest owners of transmission and microwave towers in the UK. The most famous of these is the BT Tower in London, which was the tallest building in the UK from its construction in the 1960s until the early 1980s, and a major node in the BT microwave network. (en) Backbone, kodnamn för det radiolänknät som dåvarande General Post Office i Storbritannien började projektera och bygga 1954. Syftet var att tillgodose behovet av tele- och datakommunikation för bl.a. den brittiska försvarsmakten i händelse av ett anfall med kärnvapen. (sv)
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rdfs:comment Backbone, kodnamn för det radiolänknät som dåvarande General Post Office i Storbritannien började projektera och bygga 1954. Syftet var att tillgodose behovet av tele- och datakommunikation för bl.a. den brittiska försvarsmakten i händelse av ett anfall med kärnvapen. (sv) The British Telecom microwave network was a network of point-to-point microwave radio links in the United Kingdom, operated at first by the General Post Office, and subsequently by its successor BT plc. From the late 1950s to the 1980s it provided a large part of BT's trunk communications capacity, and carried telephone, television and radar signals and digital data, both civil and military. Its use of line-of-sight microwave transmission was particularly important during the Cold War for its resilience against nuclear attack. It was rendered obsolete, at least for normal civilian purposes, by the installation of a national optical fibre communication network with considerably higher reliability and vastly greater capacity. (en)
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