Public Safety and Disaster Relief

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Public Safety andDisaster Relief

• Douglas Sward
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail sward.doug_at_ic.gc.ca

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Status in GSC

• Resolution RAST 10/1 (2001)
• Identifies public safety and disaster relief as a
  high interest subject
• Resolution GSC 8/1 (2003)
• Concludes that it is important for PSOs,
  authorities and/or organizations providing
  emergency services in countries across the world
  to continue to collaborate in the development of
  technical standards

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Resolution 646 (WRC-03)Public Protection and
Disaster Relief

• Resolution 646 (WRC-03) considers that
• Many future applications will be wideband
  (indicative data rates in the order of 384-500
  kbit/s) and/or broadband (indicative data rates
  in the order of 1-100 Mbit/s)
• New technologies for wideband and broadband
  public protection and disaster relief
  applications are being developed in various
  standards organizations (for example, a joint
  standardizations programme between ETSI and TIA,
  know as Project MESA)

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Public Safety Requirements

• Future requirements for public safety
  communications will include
• wideband applications (eg. wireless transmission
  of large blocks of data, video)
• broadband applications (eg. high-speed data, high
  quality digital real time video and multimedia)
• PS requirements include the need for lower cost
  of equipment, services and interoperability

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The Interoperability Challenge

• Several key issue areas must be addressed before
  interoperability can become a reality
• GSC can help address one piece of the puzzle
  standards

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Proposal

• Adopt a new GSC Resolution resolving to
• Encourage PSOs to develop standards for new
  terrestrial wireless digital wideband
  communications (voice and data) for public safety
  in the 764-806 MHz band
• Encourage agreement among SDOs and users on which
  standard is appropriate (based on existing
  commercial equipment or a new PS standard) for
  broadband communications in the 4940-4990 MHz band