Friday, June 7, 2013

NPSTC Announces New LTE Console Working Team

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council's (NPSTC) advocacy and work for Public Safety in the United States never ceases, and their newest project is a group formed under their
Broadband working group: the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Console Requirements Task Team. 

Chaired by Randy Richmond from Zetron and Pam Montanari of NPSTC, the group is still seeking Public Safety and vendor participants.  The subgroup will be studying consoletype devices including dispatching and call-taking, and their respective relationships to one another and to the forthcoming nationwide Public Safety Broadband network (NPSBN). Their endgame is to develop user requirements for console type devices in the context of the FirstNet NPSBN buildout. 

FirstNet is making amazing progress considering they have been in existence for roughly nine months, and have already began hiring their executive management team (learn about new General Manager Bill D'Agostino here), and have developed a strong organization identity (take a look at their new logo here), and have initiated the state and local consultation process through their regional workshops.  

Although the Congressional-mandated Public Safety advisory committee for FirstNet has been hindered in its ability to provide insight and keep abreast of FirstNet's inner-workings, NPSTC's input has been visibly useful to the board of directors, the new management and technical teams, and their millions of Public Safety constituents.

If you're at all interested in becoming a part of the broadband working group and/or the LTE console requirements task group, we highly encourage your participation.  Without its volunteers, NPSTC would not  be able to provide the advocacy, research, and valuable contributions that help our nation's first responders communicate.

Read more at Mission Critical Magazine.

No comments:

Post a Comment