News Congress told of ‘significant progress’ toward mission-critical voice over LTE 2nd December 2013 Prototypes of LTE products that provide full mission-critical-voice functionality could be available for laboratory testing within two years, said Dereck Orr, program manager for Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR), in recent congressional testimony.
News LA-RICS begins vendor negotiations on LTE system 2nd December 2013 Officials say the project is critical for public-safety communications, because L.A.-area jurisdictions are required to vacate their LMR operations from the T-Band spectrum (470-512 MHz) by 2021, and there is not enough spectrum available in other bands to simply migrate existing narrowband systems.
Video PSCR evolves its testing capabilities for public-safety LTE 27th November 2013 Emil Olbrich, head of LTE research, development, testing and evaluation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), outlines some of the changes occurring at the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) labs in Colorado to enable new levels of testing for first-responder LTE systems and products.
Video FirstNet’s D’Agostino: Commercial, public-safety LTE systems are different 27th November 2013 FirstNet General Manager Bill D’Agostino highlights the messages that he and other FirstNet officials delivered to commercial LTE carriers and vendors during the recent LTE North America conference in Dallas.
News FirstNet halts negotiations with BTOP recipients 26th November 2013 No new negotiations are planned; however, entities still have the option of agreeing to language that FirstNet offered as of Nov. 15, according to FirstNet General Manager Bill D’Agostino.
Video Ercom provides system-simulation tools for LTE network design 22nd November 2013 Omar Refaqat (left), senior manager for Ercom, and Guy Lecurieux Lafayette, Ercom’s vice president of marketing, outline the company’s ability to help operators–possibly even FirstNet–simulate LTE coverage for myriad site configurations, so the operators can design their networks more efficiently. Ercom is an exhibitor at the LTE North America conference in Dallas.
Video Qualcomm proposes LTE over unlicensed spectrum 22nd November 2013 Rajesh Pankaj, senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm, provides an overview of his company’s proposal to leverage LTE-Advanced technology on unlicensed spectrum and discusses its potential application for public safety as part of the FirstNet initiative during the LTE North America conference in Dallas.
Video E/M Wave showcases LTE antenna, multiband duplexer 21st November 2013 Steve Baker, director of sales for E/M Wave, displays the company’s new mobile LTE antenna and multiband duplexer during a conversation with UC Editor Donny Jackson during last week’s Communications Marketing Association (CMA) conference last week in Nashville, Tenn.
Video F5 Networks: Diameter signaling a key component of public-safety LTE 21st November 2013 Joe Fried, director of sales for F5 Networks, explains the role that diameter signaling plays in LTE networks and how the technology can be especially useful to the public-safety sector during a conversation with UC Editor Donny Jackson at the Signaling Focus Day before the LTE North America conference in Dallas.
Article LTE pilot projects offer a glimpse of public safety’s future 16th November 2013 Test networks answer important questions and provide key lessons, but perhaps their most important purpose is to demonstrate that interoperable public-safety LTE deployments are achievable.
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