ISSUE 03 2014
CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Founder members include NPSTC and PSCR in the USA as well as their counterpart organisations in Canada and Australia, plus several European national authorities including the UK Home Office, French Ministry of Interior and Dutch, Belgian and German national TETRA PPDR network operators.
SCUG participants have a common purpose in representing global public safety/critical communications stakeholder groups pursuing the goal of a single, fit for purpose, harmonised, global standard for mission critical services, and collaborate informally to work towards that goal.
How is the CCBG structured? The CCBG is organised into different Working Groups, each with a different but complementary focus. The progress of these Working Groups combines to deliver cohesive steps forward towards a common standard for critical communications broadband.
What type of activities do these Working Groups undertake? There are many, but just to give a few examples:
nFrom the User Requirements Working Group, 3GPP has accepted a number of important use cases and related requirements definition documents. These documents have informed and provided the basis for much of the work undertaken on the standardisation of critical communications features for LTE Release 12 and beyond.
nThe Systems Architecture (SA) Working Group participates in the standards work in 3GPP and other standards development organisations (SDOs) such as ETSI, for example defining a reference model for the
critical communications applications layer. The SA Group has also been working closely with ETSI Technical Committee TCCE (TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution), where work on the applications layer standards is progressing well.
nThe Strategic Case Working Group has published several important deliverables, including the Strategic Case document itself, which presents the outline business case for Critical Communications Mobile Broadband (CCMB). This is a document that aims
If governments choose commercial operators to deliver critical communications services, they will have to consider whether networks are upgraded sufficiently to support the very specific resilience, reliability, coverage, capacity and availability needs of the emergency services
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