by ECC Editor | Feb 22, 2020 | Articles
The House of Representatives is looking to strengthen public safety network resiliency with two new pieces of legislation.
Earlier this week Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Communications and Technology Subcommittee member Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif, introduced the Reinforcing and Evaluating Service Integrity, Local Infrastructure, and Emergency Notification for Today’s Networks Act, dubbed the RESILIENT Networks Act. The legislation will require “pre-planned coordination among providers of advanced…
by ECC Editor | Feb 21, 2020 | Articles
Are you responsible for making sure your IT solution is Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’s Act compliant? If so, recent articles like this No Jitter article are a great place to start. The next step then is to determine what’s important and what to do. This article should serve as an introduction for operators of on-premises multi-line telephone systems (MLTSs) on how to implement E911-compliant solutions. This article will cover… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 21, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Brent Williams, Senior EMS Advisor, First Responder Network Authority
Junction City Fire Department’s EMS services a rural, Midwest community in Kansas, which presents some communication challenges. To address these challenges, Junction City Fire Department uses FirstNet, whether for long distance transports to the nearest trauma facility, coordinating regional recovery efforts after a tornado, or deploying across the country to respond to a national disaster.
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by ECC Editor | Feb 21, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) is pleased to announce that their Integrated Services Program (ISP) won the Outstanding 911 Call Center/Program award.
The Next Generation 911 Institute (NG911 Institute) announced the winners of the 17th annual 911 Honor Awards at their awards reception in Washington, D.C. VITA’s program won… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 21, 2020 | Articles
With the proposed sale of AT&T to Liberty Puerto Rico the Federal Communications Commission has to consider not only the inherent commercial elements of this transaction. They must also evaluate how does that transaction affect the public safety/emergency communications infrastructure in Puerto Rico, since the islands’ government “opted in” to be part of the nationwide FirstNet network…
by ECC Editor | Feb 20, 2020 | Articles
If you’ve played in the address space any length of time you’ve heard of fishbones – and that is simply drawing a line from the address point to it’s “spot on the street”. Granted if you’ve ever done an addressing project from scratch (I had the joy to do that a few years ago in the Caribbean) it makes a lot of sense. You can quickly see problems where lines cross over other lines or where addresses have no lines at all.
There are probably multiple ways to do this but I’ve gotten fishboning (if that’s a word) running in the TN NG911 Address Server… READ MORE
