Alcatel-Lucent has carried out a key demonstration of its Voice-over-IMS and RCS presence technology to the Board of FirstNet (the First Responder Network Authority) in US, an important step in the adoption of industry standards-based Public Safety LTE in broadband voice and data communications for emergency services.

The demonstration, conducted at the Boulder, Colorado laboratories of the US Department of Commerce as part of the federal Public Safety Communications Research program, set out to showcase the application of Voice-over-IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem). This open standards-based solution can provide VoLTE (Voice over LTE) on the FirstNet network once Band 14 LTE devices with a VoLTE client become available to first responders.

Voice support on the FirstNet network will help reduce costs by providing first responders with the option to use a single device for both data and non-mission critical voice communications. It will also extend interoperability beyond data to voice communications, such as when emergency services personnel start ‘roaming’ on the nationwide FirstNet network during incidents such as disaster recovery operations. Today voice interoperability is a significant barrier to multi-agency collaboration since it is not feasible with current, separate agency-owned LMR (Land Mobile Radio) networks. Future Band 14 device support of additional voice features such as push-to-talk is required for mission-critical applications.

In addition, Alcatel-Lucent also demonstrated the interoperability of its technology within the RCS (Rich Communication Suite) initiative, the effort by the GSMA, the global mobile manufacturers association, to provide open, standards-based solutions from multiple vendors. RCS leverages the interoperability and ubiquity of voice and text-based SMS communications, and enriches it with Internet type features.

In its demonstration to the FirstNet board, Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated its presence capabilities, providing a foundation for how multiple agencies such as police and fire can deploy fully interoperable technologies. RCS provides a standards-based, presence-enabled, voice and messaging solution, allowing a first responder the freedom to roam across the entire FirstNet network without losing connectivity and therefore critical communications.

Wim Brouwer, North America Public Safety CTO of Alcatel-Lucent said: “This first demonstration of IMS and RCS for public safety provides a clear path to an interoperable Voice-over-LTE support on the FirstNet network as VoLTE clients become available on Band 14 devices. The enhanced voice interoperability and option to reduce cost by using one device for data and non mission-critical voice is important to help public safety agencies maximize their benefits of mobile broadband with FirstNet.”

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Watch the Broadband US TV webcast – a special program on FirstNet ‘one year later’ – hosted by Jim Baller and Marty Stern, with the following guests:

Laura Pettus,
Program Manager, NTIA Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program

Dr. Andrew Afflerbach,
CEO/Director of Engineering – CTC Technology & Energy

Jeff Cohen,
Chief Counsel, Law and Policy, APCO International

Martha Duggan,
Senior Principal, Regulatory Affairs, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Link Hoewing,
VP, Internet and Technology Policy, Verizon (inv).

Michael Hardiman
Alcatel-Lucent
Director, Mission Critical Broadband Solutions

Michael Hardiman, Alcatel-Lucent

It’s been a year since Congress created FirstNet, a federal authority within NTIA tasked with building a $7 billion nationwide wireless public safety broadband network. The 15-member FirstNet governing board has been appointed, and work is just underway to plan, design, develop, and ultimately construct the FirstNet network, with the hugely complex task of leveraging resources and facilities from state and local governments, wireless carriers, utilities, and others.  NTIA has just announced a $121.5 million grant program, available to states and territories, working with local and tribal governments, to staff and implement state and local FirstNet planning and coordination activities, with applications due March 19.   And while conceptual plans for network deployment and application development have been unveiled, according to board members, most of the key issues – deployment strategy, potential network partners, procurement approach, etc. – have yet to be determined.

LTE mobile broadband; video surveillance cameras and analytics for enhanced situational awareness; automated response systems; legacy TETRA networks; collaboration with multiple agencies and users; increased security and response expectations; tightened budgets.  It all has to be reconciled, balanced, coordinated and carefully monitored with maximum, always-on visibility and control on any number of devices regardless of whether you’re in the control room or in the field. Furthermore, you need to do all of this day after day, and often under the pressure of unexpected, critical events where lives are in the balance.

To call this challenging is an understatement, yet these are the realities – imperatives, really – faced by public safety agencies today. These dynamic factors, combined with ever more complex infrastructures based on multiple technologies, multi-vendor equipment and constantly evolving applications, every day are raising the bar for communications requirements and success.

Fortunately, there is a proven way to manage all of this at the utmost level of reliability expected by our governments and citizens alike. Advanced umbrella management solutions, called Operations Support Systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS), provide public safety operators with end-to-end network service and process support that reduce operational expenses and optimize the assets at hand. They enhance performance management and improve the tactical effectiveness of the organization with a service-focused management layer with links multiple networks, protocols and applications.

In the latest issue of our e-zine LifeTalk we examine the effectiveness and impact of these umbrella management solutions from four perspectives. Sheridan Nye, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Verticals at Informa Telecoms & Media, provides an economic view on how advanced technologies, budget constraints and broader inter-agency cooperation are impacting operational and financial models for public safety agencies. Phil Kidner, Chief Executive Officer, TETRA and Critical Communications Association (TCCA), provides a social viewpoint on how OSS solutions are fostering significant changes in the very structures and working relationships of the public safety ecosystem, including the citizens themselves. An agency perspective is supplied by Bruno Antoine, IT & Infrastructure Program Manager at ASTRID, Belgium, where an OSS-based provisioning and billing system is adding a new level of efficient automation to operations. Finally, Mike Jaeger, who manages Alcatel-Lucent’s OSS public sector portfolio, pulls it all together with 10 essential tips on howto increase operational efficiency using umbrella management technologies.

Overall, this issue provides a valuable and entertaining read, so I hope you’ll take a look. I wish you a very productive and safe 2013!

By Michael Roney, Editor, LifeTalk

What happens the day after a cyber attack on your telecommunication network or information system?

This stimulating question is unfortunately an essential one that all system information and network managers need to ask themselves today since cyber attacks are now an increasingly sophisticated and daily event.

But one thing is for sure. One day or another, we will all experience such an attack. The most recent examples of “Flame” and “Stuxnet” serve as reminders.

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Interoperability is the key to effective communications and continues to be an issue during multi-agency incident response.  This includes connectivity of first responders with the command center, with each having their own agency communication assets.

Well, the move towards IP-based communications, such as first responder mobile broadband, with Public Safety LTE changes this. Public safety personnel who attended the All Hazards/All Stakeholders Summit in New Orleans on December 12, 2012 experienced the solution using a live demonstration provided by Alcatel-Lucent and ng Connect Program partner Mutualink, Inc.

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The hot topic at this year’s PMR Summit/Professional LTE event was how broadband services can be brought into PMR. The Alcatel-Lucent partner, Cassidian and the VP market & technology, Philippe Devos, who chairs the CCBG Working Group for Systems & Architecture, brings James Atkinson up to date on the work to develop common global mobile broadband standards and solutions for mission and business critical users.

The joint solution Evercor® offer from Alcatel-Lucent and Cassidian brings true broadband wireless capabilities in LTE, in existing PMR 380-470 MHz band. It provides high data-rate capabilities for PMR networks, ensuring the needed bandwidth for reliable voice and easy-to-use data, video services allowing PMR users to operate effectively. This world’s first commercial LTE PMR solution at 400 MHz can be integrated into existing TETRA and TETRAPOL networks.

> Read the full article “PMR Summit: Bringing broadband LTE and PMR together”

Recently, Alcatel-Lucent successfully completed initial interoperability testing of its Public Safety LTE solution by demonstrating interoperability with Cisco, Ericsson and NSN equipment. Cisco, NSN and Harris have also made an interoperability announcement recently, although this was only for NSN radio access network equipment (RAN) with a Cisco Evolved Packet Core, whereas Alcatel-Lucent showed interoperability of both its RAN and core network components with another vendor.

This testing complies with phase 3 of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) conformance and performance test process and is an important step towards the FirstNet goal of providing interoperable mission-critical broadband mobile service to first responders – nationwide. By the way, Alcatel-Lucent was the first vendor to complete phase 1 PSCR testing.

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The Iowa Statewide Interoperability Communications Systems Board and Alcatel-Lucent have demonstrated the role of 4G LTE mobile broadband in enhancing the sharing of critical information between public safety teams.

Mobile Demonstration Center from Alcatel-Lucent containing a 4G LTE Network and a Base Station

At the internationally acclaimed Iowa State Fair (August 13-16^th, 2012) – which attracts more than a million visitors each year from around the globe including key decision makers from the business and political world – public safety representatives saw how an all-IP based 4G LTE mobile broadband network enables the lightning-fast sharing of large amounts of data and video between agencies, control centers and teams in the field.  Fingerprint databases, medical files and more can be delivered to handheld and vehicle-based mobile devices in real-time.

Police cruiser from RACOM equipped with video cameras and LTE modems

The demonstration was conducted using Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile broadband demonstration center.  This vehicle houses a self-contained end-to-end 4G LTE network operating in the spectrum bands used for public safety operations.  The network transmitted using an LTE base station operating in Band 14 using a 10MHz channel bandwidth in both uplink and downlink.  Patrol vehicles from Polk County Sheriff’s department and RACOM, a mission-critical communications solution provider, were equipped with ‘Band 14 modems’, or ‘receivers’ that pick up an LTE signal and link it to the devices used by emergency first responders. Multiple cameras were positioned in the mobile vehicles as well as at fixed sites inside the State Fair facility. Video images were taken from the cameras as the vehicles patrolled the streets and neighborhood around the fairground and five simultaneous views were shown on monitors in the patrol cars and within the demonstration center. The demonstration showcased the high speed, low latency capabilities of an LTE network enabling huge files of data as well as multiple live video images to be shared between control and patrol staff. Read More…

Live streaming video from cameras is being received and managed in dispatch and command centers in many large cities.  This is helping improve situational awareness and decision making. The challenge is how to make this information along with operational data such as floor plans, schematics, and high resolution images that are relevant to a situation available in real-time to the appropriate first responders.

A live demonstration of First Responder Video provided the answer to many public safety personnel that experienced it in the Alcatel-Lucent booth at the APCO International Conference and Expo this week. This showed how critical emergency situation information such as multiple video and data feeds can be simultaneously shared using Public Safety LTE to first responder mobile devices.

First Responder Video enables the command/dispatch center to tailor the number of video and data views as well as the screen layout for each device type and group of users, so information is delivered in a way that is appropriate to the situation as well as meaningful in relation to the size of the device.  For example, display a video of the fire along with a floor plan or interior image on a smartphone, 2 videos and an image on a tablet and 4 videos and a floor plan on a laptop.

Innovative software developed by Bell Labs makes the speedy delivery of this information possible and optimizes the use of network bandwidth. It enables multiple video feeds and operational data to be mixed into a single stream that is sent to mobile devices. The resulting stream provides significant bandwidth gain (a ratio of at least the number of mixed flows to one) and efficient decoding and display at the device since the complex manipulations are done in the First Responder Video server in the command center. A specific video stream within this single stream can be manipulated independently. For instance, if a user selects a stream displayed on the mosaic, it will be sent and received to the maximum resolution that the device allows.

First Responder Video offers two modes of operation. The dispatcher can select the video mix to be transmitted to each specific group of users, and can change the mix according to the mission needs. Also, users can directly share video with other users that belong to their group by simply selecting a video from the mosaic and sharing it.

First Responder Video can also operate over commercial 3G and 4G networks. The benefit of this innovative software was evident when simultaneously pushing 2 videos to a smartphone supported on a commercial 4G service. Even though the commercial 4G network was simultaneously being used by many smartphone users in the APCO exhibit hall, many remarked that the 2 videos were nearly instantaneously pushed to the smartphone.

Further, several commented that First Responder Video support on 3G/4G commercial networks is very important as it enables them today to start a pilot deployment to determine operational procedures as well as benefit from enhanced safety and teamwork. Then once their Public Safety LTE network is deployed, support can evolve to this network which offers additional control and a broader deployment.

This two day live demonstration of new First Responder Video in a solution which included devices and service from 5 vendors drew a lot of interest and excitement.  Since it highlights how video, as a key driver for mobile broadband can be rapidly and efficiently shared with emergency personnel, it was no surprise to hear the remark from a member of a Santa Fe agency: “perfect, this is just what we need.”

> Read the Press Release

An interesting article from Wireless magazine, interviewing Philippe Agard, VP of business development for public safety about the integrated LTE 400MHz PMR solution, called Evercor.

Agard explains why using LTE commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology developed for the mobile phone market is specifically relevant for the public safety community and other business critical PMR users. Indeed, they will benefit from all the investment going into LTE on the mobile phone side and take advantage of the economies of scale that brings.

‘We are putting €2.5bn into R&D for telecom technologies. That means LTE keeps improving, the speeds keep increasing and public safety will automatically benefit from this. The public safety community can piggyback on all the software architecture, baseband units and other infrastructure we produce. It is not a separate channel; we use our mother platform, which is a multi-standard one.

‘But we are not simply pushing our COTS stuff onto the public safety community. We are working with them to provide a specific solution. We just adapt the radio head and other specific applications and plug it into our COTS software – so everyone benefits from the huge investment,’ says Agard.

> Read the full interview

Around the world, public safety organizations rely heavily on private telecommunications networks to ensure mission-critical operations. Police forces, fire departments, emergency medical services, government authorities and others often operate their own TETRA networks for mission critical communications.

Today, these TETRA network operators are under heavy pressure to improve their communications services (availability, coverage and support of new services) and at the same time, they face sharp spending constraints in a difficult economic environment. To meet heightened demand for public safety, these organizations must get more out of their existing communications networks by enhancing performance and reliability.

But TETRA networks are difficult to manage and operate. On one side, the networks are frequently shared by several disciplines; on the other, they are often linked to a complex infrastructure based on multiple technologies, vendors and domains, all of which have to work seamlessly together. This increases the complexity and vulnerability of failures in the network.

In order to answer the most important questions of daily business (i.e. What is installed? Who needs it? At which level of quality? Who pays what?) efficient and effective operations demand transparency regarding the business dependencies of infrastructure, service, configuration and finance data.

The introduction of an advanced vendor-independent umbrella management system with clear traceability can meet the competing needs of stakeholders and hold down costs while improving performance in highly complex environments. These Operating Support System (OSS) solutions can help public safety organizations achieve their goals by building a management layer around the TETRA network and empower and better use the organization’s resources.

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Cassidian, an EADS company, and Alcatel-Lucent launched at the TETRA World Congress 2012 the new solution called ‘Evercor®’ enhancing safety and operations of public safety agencies, energy and transport companies. Based on 4G LTE technology, Evercor enables the use of video, data and other media to improve the way the security professionals serve and protect their communities.

Evercor integrates Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G LTE mobile broadband with TETRA-based systems to form the first end-to-end integrated LTE 400 professional mobile radio (PMR) solution for the 380-470 MHz band – the frequency band currently used by public safety agencies and other essential services in many parts of the world. As a result it will support new broadband communications capabilities such as real-time video to complement existing radio systems. It also allows transport and energy companies using TETRA communications to benefit from mobile broadband applications.

Find out how Evercor enhances information-sharing between control centers and field operations at TETRA World Congress 2012 in Dubai.

For more details please visit: www.alcatel-lucent.com/evercor

Alcatel-Lucent was a sponsor of TETRA World Congress 2012 in Dubai, the meeting place of the Critical Communications community and TETRA users. Alcatel-Lucent had a strong presence at this event with four speaking slots and a booth where we disclosed and demonstrated very innovative solutions for the Public safety industry.

For those who would like to see what has been presented, here is a short video for a quick demo tour.

Park rangers, emergency medical services and event organizers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rowing Championship will be using real-time visual information (streaming video, image transfer) to ensure the safety and security of competitors and spectators, thanks to a dedicated mobile broadband network from Alcatel-Lucent.

Alcatel-Lucent is providing a public safety 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network using Band 14 along with its Striker 1 mobile command vehicle [photo] to centrally monitor video surveillance cameras placed strategically around Lake Mercer for the duration of the Championship. Thanks to LTE, surveillance video will also be shared with park rangers on boats to aid in their management of the event safety. The deployment provides cost-effective, real-time visibility over a large area from a central monitoring point, allowing public safety personnel to respond more quickly and precisely to incidents on the water and medical emergencies. It also enables better monitoring and management of the thousands of spectators expected at Lake Mercer.

This is the first use of a public safety LTE network at a large scale water event in the US. The deployment demonstrates the advantages that LTE mobile broadband brings in enhancing situational awareness and collaboration between different organizations. A video feed of the event for the media and public will also use the same LTE public safety network, highlighting that public safety LTE has the capacity and capability to ensure and prioritize mission critical operations while still supporting non-critical traffic.

LTE is considered the best technology to provide mobile broadband for the public safety sector, with bandwidth, reliability and cost of ownership in its favor. Alcatel-Lucent is drawing on its experience as a leading supplier of LTE solutions to telecommunication service providers to help public safety agencies around the world plan their transition to LTE.

In October 2011, the City of Charlotte selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a hosted core LTE public safety network in the dedicated 700 MHz frequency spectrum. In a recent LTE trial with Sao Paulo Military Police, live video has proven invaluable, improving situational awareness, aiding faster, more accurate decision making, and ultimately increasing the safety of first responders and their communities.

By Michael Roney, Editor, LifeTalk

There’s no doubt about it: city life isn’t what it used to be, and that’s both good and bad. First consider the challenges: Today’s cities are larger than at any time in history. In fact, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) reports that more than 50 percent of the worldwide population now lives in urban areas, with five billion people projected to live in cities by 2020. We also have to deal with an increasingly mobile populace, more traffic and pollution, the always-present threat of natural disasters, and a troubling rise in global terrorism that has become part of our everyday concerns. These new realities are creating unprecedented issues related to safety and quality of life.

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In the article published in “Enriching Communications” eZine, Kevin Wendt, Global Director of Network Management Services and Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent shares his vision about the relevancy of combining the power of LTE with Cloud infrastructure.

Wendt explains why LTE cloud infrastructure gives public safety agencies:

• Faster access to advanced services and applications. Because it’s a multi-tenant platform, when a service or application is enabled for one agency, every other agency on the platform has the opportunity to access it.
• Lower costs. A shared platform means shared costs. Agencies can avoid the upfront costs of buying equipment themselves and also avoid the unpredictable costs incurred throughout the network lifecycle. They enjoy a consistent, predictable cost for the service.
• Lower risks. Agencies don’t have to worry about finding LTE experts, managing the network or resolving problems with the network, technology or platform. The pressures of equipment maintenance, upgrades and staff training disappear.

“Public Safety has faced many challenges with today’s communications platforms. LTE creates a path to address the issues of interoperability while at the same time enabling the introduction of new applications that will increase responsiveness, improve situational awareness and change the paradigm for providing public safety services. Enabling this advanced communications solution in a cloud environment allows jurisdictions to get into service more quickly and make more efficient use of scarce tax payer dollars.” said Kevin.

To know more about the LTE Cloud benefits, access the full article.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week announced its appointments to the 15-member technical advisory board for first-responder interoperability, following a new law designed to enable the buildout of a nationwide public-safety broadband network operating on 700 MHz spectrum. An FCC spokesperson said: “We’re meeting with the board; we’re moving forward with that.” Indeed, at the first meeting of the board on March 26, two officers were elected. Charles Robinson, director of business support services for the city of Charlotte, N.C. will serve as chair for the board. The vice chair will be Kenneth Budka, senior director of advanced mission-critical communications in Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs chief technology office.

Following his appointment to the board, Budka expressed “I am excited and honored to serve with the 14 distinguished members of the Board.  In early 2002, our Bell Labs team was asked to investigate the public safety communications interoperability problems that surfaced during the response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and what it would take to fix them. We were shocked by what we found: a hodgepodge of proprietary Land Mobile Radio technologies and Land Mobile Radio standards that were standard in name only. As well as high equipment prices that had the unintended effect of preventing communities from giving their first responders the tools they needed to keep themselves and their communities safe.

Thus began Alcatel-Lucent’s efforts to transform public safety communications through the use of open-standard commercial broadband technologies. What a thrill it has been to work with our Alcatel-Lucent public safety team and other stakeholders throughout the US to make public safety broadband a reality.”

First Responder Board for Technical Interoperability*

Establishing the interoperability board is the first action mandated by a law enacted last month that reallocates the 700 MHz D Block spectrum to public-safety and provides $7 billion in funding to pay for the buildout of a nationwide broadband network for first responders. The board is required to complete its work by May 22, when the results will be provided to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) and the interoperability board will be disbanded.

Mobile wireless consultant Andrew Seybold, a long-time supporter of a public-safety broadband network, said he believes the appointees are qualified to execute the work envisioned by the new law. “I think [FCC officials] did a wonderful job–they got people who were on our side, they got detractors, they got experts from everywhere in the organizations, they got experts in public safety,” Seybold said. “I don’t know who did the picking, but I commend them very highly for it.”

ACCESS the FCC announcement and READ the full article in Urgent Communications.

* From Left to Right: Charles L. K. Robinson, City of Charlotte, North Carolina; Dr. Kenneth C. Budka, Alcatel-Lucent; Brian Shepherd, Adams County Communications Center, Inc.; Brenda L. Decker, State of Nebraska; Ronald Strecker, Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc. & Panhandle Telecommunications Systems, Inc.; Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Steve Proctor, Utah Communications Agency Network; Ed Chao, MetroPCS Communications, Inc.; Dr. Dennis Martinez, Harris Corporation; Colonel Kenneth C. Hughes, Jr., (Ret), New Orleans Urban Area Security Initiative; Dereck Orr, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Todd Bianchi, Washington, DC Fire and EMS Department; Paul Steinberg, Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Not pictured: Robert Azzi, Sprint Nextel Corporation; Bill Price, State of Florida; Diane C. Wesche, Verizon Wireless.

Testimonial of  Alfredo Deak Jr, Colonel and Director of Technology.

In the state of São Paulo-Brazil, 100 000 uniformed military officers are acting directly in the public security exercise. São Paulo Military police receives a daily average of 160.000 calls through the 190 service. Only a high data transmission network is able to manage such traffic of information. Discover in the video the First LTE trial, a pioneer project with São Paulo police and Alcatel-Lucent, in the real situation of the streets of this huge city. Learn how with a fast and efficient communication system, health, education and other public safety services become more effective.

Alfredo Deak Jr, Colonel and Director of Technology of São Paulo Military Police reveals: “Technology today is the basic tool for decision making, operational management, and administrative control. Without technology, an institution with our size, with our responsibilities before society, doesn’t survive…For us LTE enables the integration of all public and private entities and allows Policia Militar to know better what’s going on in the street so we can pro-actively avoid crimes from taking place.”

More than in any other place, reducing the response time in emergency situations means saving lives!

At the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from February 22-23, Alcatel-Lucent showcases Bell Labs’ innovations and solutions designed to help first responders in the field and demonstrates to public safety agencies how they can make the transition to mobile broadband technology.

The latest innovation from Alcatel-Lucent’s continuing focus and investment in public safety solutions is Bell Labs’ First Responder Video. In a crisis situation, first responders at the scene of an incident need the right information at the right time adapted to their situation. First Responder Video achieves this with a state-of-the-art user interface that combines video streams with text and images sent from a central or mobile command center. By design, standard tablets or smartphones used today by public safety agencies are limited to only a single video stream in full screen mode. First Responder Video overcomes this limitation with unique Bell Labs processing that compresses multiple video streams into the bandwidth normally taken by 1, delivering a mosaic of video feeds with full control over each one. First responders can also transmit live video from their situation. First Responder Video is operating system agnostic meaning it can work with devices from different manufacturers. This freedom of choice lowers the total cost of ownership for public safety agencies. You’ll experience First Responder Video live at IWCE.

Also on show at IWCE are several real-life applications and tangible innovations working in a live Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband environment. The cutting-edge Alcatel-Lucent Striker 1 mobile command vehicle provides Band 14 LTE for demonstrations using a variety of devices including tablets, video cameras and radios, allowing attendees to experience for themselves the benefits of mobile broadband communications.

Alcatel-Lucent Striker 1 mobile command vehicle

LTE is the best mobile broadband technology to support innovations like these, with bandwidth, reliability and cost of ownership in its favor. Alcatel-Lucent is drawing on its experience as a leading supplier of LTE solutions to telecommunication service providers to help public safety agencies around the world plan their transition to LTE.

Meet us @ IWCE on booth 2068 and experience LTE live!

“This achievement with Alcatel-Lucent places Altair in a unique position as we are one of the only chip companies with a commercial Band 14 chipset, and the first chip company to complete comprehensive Band 14 testing with Alcatel-Lucent,” said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Altair Semiconductor. “The public safety market is very strategic for Altair, and as a pioneer in this space, we expect to significantly capitalize on its growth in the coming years.”

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