The Department of Homeland Security released an informational toolkit on...
The Department of Homeland Security released an informational toolkit on FirstNet late last week. The variety of resources is intended for the Office of Emergency Communications’ stakeholders, DHS said, describing it as the product of a working group of federal,…
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state and local stakeholders first established in the spring (http://xrl.us/bn27hs). The Broadband Outreach Toolkit consists of four documents: separate FAQs for policymakers, technical personnel, and operational personnel, as well as a two-page primer called “Realizing the Future of Public Safety Communications.” The National Association of Telecom Officers and Advisors spotlighted the toolkit Wednesday and directed questions to its Public Safety/Homeland Security Committee Chair Barry Fraser (http://xrl.us/bn27h2). The primer documents detail some debated elements of FirstNet, such as the difference between public safety and commercial networks: “Public safety networks require higher degrees of robustness, resiliency, redundancy, and security than commonly found in commercial networks,” the policymakers FAQ said. “While current commercial solutions are used to augment public safety networks by providing non-mission critical services, many commercial mobile data solutions are not interoperable with public safety data systems.” The FAQs acknowledge many unknowns to its questions, such as when the network will be deployed or what standards of hardening will apply.