FirstNet will start running next year, a National Institute of Standards and Technology...
FirstNet will start running next year, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) official said, referring to the national wireless broadband network for first responders. Police and fire agencies “don’t quite understand what they're getting into” in the “huge…
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shift” from generations of disparate communications systems that they've had to “duct tape” together, said Emil Olbrich, the lead project engineer in NIST’s Office of Law Enforcement Standards. Government interoperability testing is needed to allow public distribution of information about LTE networks, because mobile carriers share specifications information only in confidence, he said late last week at the NGMN Industry Conference in San Francisco. His office and the NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences have branded joint efforts as Public Safety Communication Research. The NIST lab in Boulder, Colo., can do unique tests in part because of access to Table Mountain, the site of a National Radio Quiet Zone, Olbrich said. The other zone is mainly in Virginia and West Virginia.