Broadband

Broadband Task Groups

Below are the task groups formed under the NPSTC Broadband Working Group that focus on user requirements for public safety broadband.

Direct Mode Range Requirements

This group will look at public safety operating procedures to help understand what range capability is required for direct mode communications to be useful for public safety.

James Hassett (james.hassett@nypd.org) is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to james.hassett@nypd.org.

Local Control

This task group has been working on developing high-level use cases pursuant to "local control" of public safety LTE systems and developing user requirements based on those use cases.

Tom Hengeveld (thengeve@harris.com) with Harris is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to bbwg-localcontrol@its.bldrdoc.gov.

Mission Critical Voice Technical Requirements

This group will take the qualitative MCV document produced by NPSTC last fall and start turning that into quantitative requirements. This includes both on-network and off-network voice communications, as well as PTT and full duplex voice requirements.

Steve Devine (stephen.devine@dps.mo.gov) with Harris is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to stephen.devine@dps.mo.gov.

NOVES/MMES (Multimedia Emergency Services)

This task group has been working on developing use cases for Multimedia Emergency Services.

George Stanek (gs1723@att.com) with AT&T is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to bbwg-noves@its.bldrdoc.gov.

Priority/Quality of Service

This task group has been focusing on understanding and documenting public safety's priority and quality of service needs for 700 MHz LTE by developing use cases and user requirements.

Trent Miller (trent.miller@motorolasolutions.com) with Motorola Solutions is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to bbwg-priority_qos@its.bldrdoc.gov.

Security

This group is working to develop security requirements for public safety broadband beyond those that are already documented in the 700 MHz Statement of Requirements (SoR).

Mark Adams (ms.adams@ngc.com) with Northrop Grumman is coordinating this task group. If interested, please send an email to bbwg-security@its.bldrdoc.gov.

Meeting Minutes – September 28, 2011

Voice

This group will follow on the work of the Mission Critical Voice Requirements group, with a focus on any voice-related issues on the broadband public safety network, including LMR to LTE voice solutions, P25, and push-to-talk.

DJ Atkinson (dj@its.bldrdoc.gov), PSCR, is coordinating this task group. Public safety leads are James Hassett (james.hassett@nypd.org), NYPD, and Steve Devine (stephen.devine@dps.mo.gov), State of Missouri.

Meeting schedules have been determined by each group's lead and participants. Meeting announcements are sent out via the email distribution lists specific to each group. All of the above groups have been using PSCR's Sharepoint Web Portal to share documents. The URL is: https://partnerweb.its.bldrdoc.gov/Partners/NPSTC Broadband Working Group/.

If you are interested in gaining access to the Sharepoint Web Portal, please email Darcy Anton at danton@corneralliance.com with your name, email address, and which groups you wish to participate in.

700 MHz Broadband Network Requirements Task Force

Executive Summary Excerpt from the Final Report

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC), at its June 2009 meeting, following the vote to endorse Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the technology of choice for the Nationwide Broadband Data System (NBDS), and at the request of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust, also voted to form a 700 MHz Broadband Task Force (BBTF). Over a 60 day period, the BBTF was given the mission to develop the minimum recommendations necessary to insure roaming and interoperability among Regional Systems that various Public Safety entities are requesting through waivers filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The instructions to the BBTF included the assumption of the use of LTE technology, recommendation only of the minimum requirements for roaming and interoperability leaving the Regional Systems free to design and specify the technical parameters of the system to meet local needs and giving the freedom to the Regional Systems to employ any additional requirements and applications needed locally beyond those recommendations in a final report. The task force also recognized the Regional Systems would be part of the NBDS.

The BBTF organized into three Work Groups – Operations, Technical, and Governance. The BBTF membership was open to all persons wishing to participate. The work product was openly posted on web sites and the press was invited to monitor and report progress. Each work group, after much input and discussion, made recommendations to support the mission and objectives of the BBTF. The specific recommendations are reported in Section six (6) of the final report.

Final Report Announcement

On September 15, 2009, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) voted to accept the 700 MHz Broadband Network Requirement Task Force (BBTF) Final Report and to send the report to the Public Safely Spectrum Trust (PSST). NPSTC is grateful to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) and the Department of Commerce (DOC) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program for their support and participation in developing this report.

700 MHz Documents

NPSTC Broadband Priority & QoS Working Group Priority Parameter Questionnaire - November 8, 2011

NPSTC Submits Comments to NIST Regarding R&D Priorities for a Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network - October 12, 2011

NPSTC Summary of Unresolved 700 MHz Issues - September 11, 2011

Mission Critical Voice Communications Requirements for Public Safety Functional Description - August 30, 2011

All Aboard? Tackling Broadband Adoption - Rick Schadelbauer, April 6, 2011

Technical Requirements for Land Mobile Radio Services Operating in the Bands 768-776 MHz and 798-806 MHz

September 15, 2009 Press Release

700 MHz Broadband Task Force Final Report

NENA Comments on Final Report

700 MHz Links

Statement of Requirements

FCC Calendar for Actions

Recent FCC Broadband Filings

700 MHz News

Urgent Need of 700 MHZ Broadband for Mission Critical Data – by Lance Valcour (courtesy FrontLine Security, Vol.6 No.4 – Winter 2011)

TR Daily Article

Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011

Response to USA Today – March 31, 2011

USA Today Article – March 29, 2011

Broadband: Be All, End All Spectrum? – March 21, 2011

Latest on LTE

LTE Support for Mission-Critical Voice for Public Safety (courtesy Andrew Seybold) - June 19, 2011

The Truth About LTE – Joe Ross

(Published with permission of MissionCritical Magazine. This article originally appeared in the November / December 2010 issue of MissionCritical Magazine. To access this article and others, click here http://rrmediagroup.com/)