by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant
This is a message for Verizon and Andres Irlando, a Verizon senior vice president and president of the carrier’s Public Sector and Verizon Connect unit. You are going down a path that is well traveled and not new. You can go back decades and see all the work done by thousands to resolve public safety interoperability and that path is lined with many failures.
Now since I am somewhat of an expert on this topic let me help you out with some observations and good history. You can look at all the standards work the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) has done, along with the work the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) has done. There are standards that cover everything from CAD to CAD interfaces, NextGen Networks to Land Mobile Radio (LMR). The largest having been P25. They have all had varying levels of success but none of those have solved the problem…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 17, 2021 | Comm Center News
HIGHLANDS — Residents of this borough may have plenty of questions about the pros and cons of the town’s police department switching over to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office emergency dispatch system, but one thing is clear — they certainly love, respect and are grateful for the members of their local police department…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2021 | Comm Center News
ITASCA, IL (Feb. 15, 2021) – Join us on Feb. 24 to learn about ongoing interagency efforts in the area of location-based services for public safety and catch a live demo of the newly released Z-Axis solution from FirstNet, Built by AT&T. Representatives from the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will highlight the near and long term vision for this key public safety feature, also touching on the x and y-axis…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2021 | Comm Center News
CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — Right now at the federal level, the Standard Occupational Classification lists those trained operators who answer your life or death calls under Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the same category as receptionists, hotel clerks, and taxi dispatchers…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2021 | Comm Center News
Missouri’s first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications with the addition of new, purpose-built FirstNet cell sites in 18 counties across the state. This new infrastructure is a part of the FirstNet network expansion taking place across the state, bringing increased coverage, capacity and capabilities for public safety which already added over 40 cell sites throughout rural Missouri during 2020.
The new purpose-built FirstNet cell sites were requested by the state of Missouri when it signed on to FirstNet and these cell sites have been delivered two years ahead of schedule…
