STRATEGIC WHITE PAPER
To provide seamless data communication during emergencies, public saety practitionersendorse 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as the oundation or new wirelessnetworks. LTE oers nationwide interoperability in the 700 MHz band, and it cansupport key broadband applications that accelerate response times, improve situationalawareness — and increase the saety o the public and all personnel. However, LTErequires a move to all-IP networks and presents some operational challenges, includingthe need to minimize costs in today’s difcult economic environment. This paper explainsoperational business models that public saety entities can use to manage LTE networksmore efciently and cost eectively. For organizations considering outsourcing, it exploreskey actors, such as unding requirements, operational costs, tolerance or shared control,and solution expertise.
Long Term Evolution (LTE) for Public Safety
Enabling Flexible Business Models
Long Term Evolution (LTE) for Public Safety | Strategic White Paper1
1. Introduction
Public saety entities rely heavily on telecommunications networks to ensure the success o mission-critical operations. In North America, digital and analog Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks areused or mission-critical voice communications. These networks are oten shared across agencies,combining multiple disparate radio networks that are interconnected by a transport network. Thenetworks are dicult to manage and operate, because they oten link to a complex inrastructure basedon diverse technologies, vendors and domains. For most public saety emergency service personnel,telecommunications is not their core mission — which adds to the challenge o operating andmanaging these networks.Furthermore, LMR is a narrowband technology, which is good or voice and low bandwidth data services.But it simply cannot handle the advanced data applications that rontline ocers and rst respondersrequire. Wireless broadband is essential or delivering these applications, which may include videosurveillance, automated vehicle license plate recognition, biometric identication, mobile crimescene units, mobile incident command, geospatial inormation systems, medical telemetry andautomated vehicle location.To implement these broadband capabilities, public saety organizations in North America are considering4G LTE networks deployed as an overlay to existing LMR networks. This approach will supportbroadband data in the short term, and in the longer term, the networks can evolve to supportmission-critical voice.Because LTE is proposed or commercial 700 MHz spectrum deployments in North America, itsadoption or public saety deployments presents an unprecedented opportunity or mission-criticalcommunications to become interoperable across the United States. Public saety users and rstresponders will have access to critical communications services wherever they go, while leveragingcommon user equipment.To implement an LTE public saety network without disrupting existing day-to-day operations, publicsaety agencies must consider a number o key issues, including multivendor interoperability, networkreliability, scalability and interworking with existing LMR systems. A successul transormationinvolves the ollowing considerations:
•Optimizingthetotalcostofownership(TCO)oftheLTEnetwork•Selectingthecorrecttechnologicalsolution•Minimizingimplementationandtechnicalrisk•Securingmigrationfrompresentmodeofoperation(PMO)tofuturemodeofoperation(FMO)•SettingupnetworkoperationsefcientlytoreduceOPEX
The ollowing section describes operational business models that address these considerations.
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