There’s a lot of excitement around the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau this week about our upcoming public forum on mobile broadband for first responders. On Wednesday, February 10th at 2:00 p.m., we’ll be hosting first responders, network operators, and policy makers for a two-hour discussion about how we can solve a problem that has plagued the public safety community for far too long.
Interoperability could be addressed along different dimensions
RF air interface; various packet bearers and related QoS parameters.
But what about from cybersecurity perspective?
LTE is all-packet system and goes well beyond voice -- what is being done to address cybersecurity issues?
:) Good Luck!
That's good thought!
For all of those indivuals who routinuely say that the issue is with cross training of equipment, I ask, how many of you need to be trained on your cell phones?
It is utterly rediculous in this day in age that we are talking about this. If two people don't want to talk, so be it! But if they can't talk bacause technology or funding won't allow it, shame on us!
Training shouldn't be the answer! That's the underlying problem! These radio systems are too difficult to use.... Why should a police officer or firefighter have to think or work at communications? It should come naturally... an afterthought.... Stop relaying the old tired axiom that public safety communication's problem is with people.... While that may be part of the problem, I'm sure those who suffered during 9/11 would have LOVED to COMMUNICATE! Don't denigrate them by suggesting that they didn't know how to communicate with others!
Think ahead!
I'd like to point out an easily overlooked fact as we continue (again and again) to "address" interoperability problems, that the Katrina report found that the biggest cause of the communications break down among first responders was lack of cross training on equipment.