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From: Tom DeReggi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:44:50
To:WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Northrop to provide wireless public safety net for NYC
For $500 MILLION, it better be licensed or PublicSafety allocated Spectrum.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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From: Dawn DiPietro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:54 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Northrop to provide wireless public safety net for NYC
Northrop to provide wireless public safety net for NYC
BY Bob Brewin
Published on Sept. 12, 2006
New York City has awarded Northrop Grumman a $500 million contract to
develop a broadband wireless network, which the city characterized as the
“most aggressive commitment by any municipality to provide a
next-generation public safety network.”
The New York Citywide Mobile Wireless Network (CMWN) will provide the New
York Police Department, Fire Department, Transportation Department, Office
of Emergency Management and other agencies with a high-speed network
capable of handling a variety of broadband data including federal and
state anti-crime and anti-terrorism, fingerprint, mug shot and city map
databases, and full-motion streaming video, the city said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the new network will help fill in the
communications gaps that occurred as emergency workers grappled five years
ago with the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center. “One of the
most important lessons learned from the Sept. 11 attacks was that our
emergency responders need better access to information and clearer lines
of communication in the field,” Bloomberg said.
CMWN will ensure that public safety workers will have the tools they need
to fight crime and help in emergencies, Bloomberg said. It will also
improve efficiency and productivity in nonemergency situations by
streamlining communications and improving service, he added.
The city said it expects Northrop Grumman will turn the network on in
Lower Manhattan by January 2007, with citywide deployment planned by
spring 2008. The city has an option to extend the contract for 10 years.
The company said it selected IPWireless to provide its Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System equipment used by commercial cellular carriers
for CMWN. The gear can provide mobile users with broadband data service at
speeds up to 16M per second, according to a fact sheet on the company’s
Web site.
Lori Horton, director of strategic wireless initiatives at Northrop
Grumman, said CMWN will provide users with data rates of 2M per second in
a vehicle moving 60 miles per hour. The company demonstrated in a test
earlier this year in Lower Manhattan that it can provide such data rates
to vehicles moving at 120 mph, she added.
A unique feature of the network will address concerns raised by top
commanders’ inability to communicate in the aftermath of the terrorist
attacks, Horton said. It will give priority to incident scene commanders
so they get the bandwidth they need when they need it, she said.
The city said the high data rates provided by CMWN will allow the NYPD and
FDNY to deploy new applications to workers in the field. The network will
enable police officers to access real-time photo, warrant and license
plate databases.
The network will enable FDNY to establish reliable wireless connectivity
between the Fire Operations Center and responders in the field to transmit
on-scene data and video, the city said. New York will work to provide
network access to state and federal public safety agencies.
The city said it plans to use CMWN support a number of nonemergency
applications that will provide a significant improvement over existing
technology for city workers in the field. For example, it will include
remote water meter reading technology for the Environmental Protection
Department, which will reduce costs associated with conventional methods
of meter reading.
The city said its DOT will use the network to expand its ability to
remotely monitor and program traffic signal controls daily and during
emergencies.
When New York released the CMWN bid request in 2004, it attracted interest
from bidders including EDS, IBM, Lucent and Lockheed Martin.
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