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Standards Not a Barrier to NG911 Deployment: NENA

National Emergency Number Association representatives said the group’s i3 standard and an ATIS standard for IP multimedia subsystems are “complementary, and not competing, specifications and systems implementing them are expected to be fully interoperable,” in a meeting with an aide…

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to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. NENA said the largest barriers to next-gen 911 deployment are “with business and policy, and not with standards or technology,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-479. ”A significant barrier to interoperability is the lack of a network connection between systems,” NENA said: “In the i3 standard this is addressed with an expectation that secure, standards-based traffic can take place between far away systems over the internet. It would also be possible that a nationwide backbone connecting all systems could be implemented.”