Local Control of Network Big Issue for FirstNet
Local control has emerged as a big issue for FirstNet’s proposed network and the authority is paying attention, said Jeff Posner, senior applications architect, in a blog post. “Probably the most important lesson I have learned from work in this…
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area is that local control means different things to different constituencies,” Posner wrote. FirstNet’s Chief Technology Officer team looked at the issue in its January requests for proposals, he said. “We cast the widest net and included as many ideas and suggestions as possible regarding local control,” he said. “Then, we grouped these suggestions logically, aligned them with other sections” of the request for proposal, “and organized them into areas of ‘Direct Control’ and ‘Indirect Control.’” FirstNet recently met with its Public Safety Advisory Committee Local Control Task Team in Boulder, Colorado, to discuss the topic, he said. PSAC Chairman Harlin McEwen said in a report to the FirstNet board Wednesday that one big recent recognition is that manual, local control of the network will “rarely, if ever, be necessary.” That is an important observation, he said: PSAC members didn’t understand that until a recent meeting on the topic with FirstNet staff. “Almost everything will be automated and dynamic,” McEwen said.