Protect Legacy Technology During NG911 Transition: Intrado
Intrado in a series of meetings with FCC commissioner aides and staff from the Public Safety and Wireline bureaus warned that moving to next-generation 911 will take years. So Intrado asked that the FCC require carriers to keep legacy time…
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division multiplexing (TDM) technology in place while the transition to IP-based systems is completed. Though the migration to NG911 services “offers great promise for 911 reliability and availability, the timeline to transition should not be underestimated as it will require several more years to complete,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 21-479: “Providing 911 services during this period of accelerated TDM decommissioning is proving challenging as the facilities-based TDM providers seek to quickly turn down their remaining TDM service offerings while also requiring 911 providers to maintain these same circuits for the delivery of 911 traffic to reach Public Safety Answering Points.”