----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <[email protected]> ----- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:05:53 -0400 From: Dave Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] Correction please note FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR NATIONWIDE MOBILE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK Reply-To: [email protected] To: ip <[email protected]>
To have mentioned any endorsement by other than me was premature. Please dis-remember. Dave Begin forwarded message: > From: David Farber <[email protected]> > Date: June 15, 2010 12:02:25 PM EDT > To: ip <[email protected]> > Subject: [IP] FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR > NATIONWIDE MOBILE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > The paper is at > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-298799A1.pdf > > FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR NATIONWIDE MOBILE > PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK > > Washington, D.C. -- The Federal Communications Commission today released a > comprehensive white paper which provides the capacity analysis behind the > National Broadband Plan recommendations for the deployment and operation of a > nationwide 4G wireless public safety network that allows first responders to > seamlessly communicate across geographies and agencies, regardless of devices. > The white paper, titled: ???The Public Safety Nationwide Interoperable > Broadband Network, A New Model For Capacity, Performance and Cost???, shows > that the 10 MHz of dedicated spectrum currently allocated to public safety > will provide the capacity and performance necessary for day-to-day > communications and serious emergency situations. One study cited in the white > paper shows that 10 MHz of spectrum can yield the same capacity as over 160 > MHz if the correct technology, architecture, and devices are used. As part of > this analysis, the FCC examined two real life events, the Minneapolis Bridge > Collapse and Hurricane Ike hitting Houston, and additional empirical data > which supports this conclusion. > > ???Our goal is to bring true interoperable mobile broadband communications to > America???s first responders,??? said Jamie Barnett, Chief of the FCC???s > Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB). ???The FCC study shows > how we can maximize capacity, performance, reliability and resiliency of > public safety broadband communications even in the most extraordinary > emergencies when life-saving response efforts are underway and communications > demands are at their peak.??? > > For the worst emergencies, the FCC has devised an innovative concept of > priority access and roaming across the commercial broadband wireless spectrum > that will make at least 50 or 60 MHz of additional spectrum immediately > available to public safety. The white paper describes how 10, 20 or even 30 > MHz of additional dedicated spectrum may not be sufficient to support public > safety broadband communications in a major emergency, and how the priority > access and roaming exceeds the public safety spectrum that would otherwise be > available. Moreover, it provides public safety with dependability and back up > support, which does not exist with a purely dedicated network. > > Barnett noted, ???The key is capacity. Spectrum is only one factor. This plan > provides extraordinary capacity to public safety, first with a dedicated > network, backed with first-in-line privileges for public safety. This plan is > like providing public safety with its own expandable, high speed lane, and it > is a cost- effective investment in a national asset. Merely allocating an > additional 10 MHz to public safety would be like building a separate, > stand-alone highway system, and one so expensive that it would not even reach > every community in America for years.??? > > This paper was > > ------------------------------------------- > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----
