Project MESA Broadband Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications An International Case Study

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Project MESABroadband Mobility for Emergency
and Safety ApplicationsAn International Case
Study

• IIRs 15th Annual FleetMobile COMMS 2006 Annual
  Conference and ExpositionRACV Club, Melbourne
• April 10-12, 2006

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Presentation Overview

• Introduction to TIA
• Standards, Global Activities, Emergency
  Communications
• TIA and PSPP MESA
• MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR
• MESA Scenarios
• MESA Technical Specification Group System
• Main MESA Technical System Features
• Some Key MESA Requirements
• System Reference Model Architecture
• MESA Technology Potential
• Moving Forward
• Contacts
• Note The following terms, for this presentation,
  all relate to Safety and Emergency Applications
  Public Safety and Protection, Disaster Relief and
  Response, Emergency Responders (First Responders
  and even Critical Infrastructure Restoration),
  and National Security

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Introduction to TIA

• TIA is a trade organization (trade
  shows/marketing and global public policy) and is
  a Standards Development Organization (SDO),
  serving the communications and information
  technology industry
• In its Standards Development activities, TIA is
  open to participation globally and is accredited
  by the American National Standards Institute
  (ANSI) to develop standards used in the industry
• Involves fair and transparent process that
  encourages the development of voluntary industry
  standards and technical documents that support
  global (national and international) ICT products
  and services
• TIA is company and technology agnostic
• TIA also contributes to and represents industry
  in international standards and multilateral groups

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Introduction to TIA

• 9 product-oriented Engineering Committees with
  over 70 subcommittees and working groups
• Over 1,000 individuals from nearly 20 countries
  work in these formulating groups
• Representatives from academia, laboratories,
  manufacturers, service providers, and end-users,
  including the government
• Inclusive collaboration, strive for consensus

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TIA Global Activities

• Understanding of TIA technical work provided to
  other SDOs and ITU via Global Standards
  Collaboration (GSC), MoUs, direct collaboration,
  participation, conferences, etc.
• Support Emergency Communications
  issues/Resolutions at GSC
• TIA standards can form the basis of contributions
  to other SDOs (e.g., ITU, IEC, ISO, JTC1, ETSI,
  etc.)
• And adopted by other nations and regions

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TIA and Emergency Communications

• TIA has a proven track record of supporting
  emergency responders, and has long been a
  catalyst for the wireless industry to develop and
  maintain public safety standards (analog and
  digital) for equipment and systems
• TIA standards activities began in the 1920s
• One Committee, TR-8, has met continuously since
  1944 and has been involved in producing standards
  for land mobile systems that serve the public
  safety community and other private radio users
• TIAs Engineering Committee TR-8 develops
  standards related to land mobile radio products
  and voice and data systems, utilizing narrowband,
  and wideband and now broadband technologies,
  involving both users and suppliers in its
  standards deliberation activities

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TIA and Project MESA

• Recent TR-8 activities have included Project 25
  (102-series) for voice plus narrowband and
  wideband (902-series) data
• Natural evolution to look at broadband mobile for
  Public Safety
• Project 34 and TR-8.8
• Through broadband data emerges a paradigm shift
  potential for commercial technology to facilitate
  data needs
• Enhance Public Safety capabilities
• Involvement of TIA TR-45, Mobile and Personal
  Communications Systems
• Issues for Public Safety Spectrum and systems
  (private/commercial ownership, operation and
  management), comprehensive SLAs, robustness and
  reliability of technology, other

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Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• Recognized that ETSI and TIA were independently
  working on similar projects
• Challenges faced by Public Protection and
  Disaster Relief (PPDR) professionals are similar
  throughout the world
• Partnership program between ETSI and TIA
• Formed in May 2000 using the Partnership
  Project model that was used in 3GPPs
• This Public Safety Partnership Project (PSPP)
  named Project MESA in honor of the signatory city
  
• Acronym fits well tooMobility for Emergency and
  Safety Applications

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Objectives

• MESA aims to coordinate and articulate globally
  applicable requirements and technical
  specifications for digital mobile broadband
  technology, aimed initially at the sectors of
  public safety and disaster response in support of
  local, regional and international responses to
  emergencies, disasters and day-by-day services
• Based on continued professional user input and
  contribution

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Project MESA Organizational Structure
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MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• Project MESA
• Broadband communication capabilities for Public
  Safety and Emergency Services (i.e., NGN for
  PPDR, TDR, ETS, national security)
• MESA 11 Press Release
• http//www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/inde
  x.cfm?parelease05-81
• Project MESA recognized by ITU-T and ITU-R
• Project MESA broadband standardization activity
  documented in ITU-R Report M.2033
• Project MESA, and its OPs, were specifically
  mentioned in ITU-R WRC-2003 Resolution for
  ongoing Broadband PPDR standardization activities

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MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• Organizational Partners (OPs)
• TIA, ETSI
• Others are invited (ISACC, TTA, currently
  observers)
• Individual Members
• Affiliation with an OP registered to participate
  in MESA
• Public Safety Members
• Governmental or private entity providing public
  safety services (does not have to be OP
  affiliated)
• List of participants
• http//www.projectmesa.org/info/MESApeople.htm
• Industry, Governmental, Universities/research,
  others
• N. America, Europe, Korea, Australia, Japan,
  India .
• Including Bureau of Emergency Services
  Telecommunications, DoJ (Australia)

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Specializations capable of utilizing MESA
process/output

• Correctional Institutions
• Emergency Planning
• Central Government
• Land and natural resources
• Transportation
• Intelligent transport systems
• Highways Agency
• Others

• Criminal Justice
• Emergency management
• Special operations
• Health Services
• Fire services
• Coast Guard
• Search and Rescue
• Airport security
• Humanitarian assistance
• Hazardous materials

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57 Individual Members
ACD Telecom Inc. ArrayComm Austin Wireless BAPCO Boeing Integrated Defense Systems/Homeland Defense and Services CEFRIEL Cingular Wireless Cisco Systems City of Mesa Copenhagen Fire Brigade EADS-DSN (formerly Matra Nortel Comms.) EF Johnson Co Ericsson Wireless Communications ETRI (Korea) Flarion Technologies FPIC (Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications)--DHS Harris Corporation Helsinki University of Technology HMFSI Home Office (UK) IFR, an Aeroflex Company IPC Information Systems Institute for Telecommunication Sciences KoKom - National Centre on Emergency Communication in Health LGP Allgon AB Lucent Technologies Marconi Mobile Access Ministry of Economic Affairs (DGTP) Motorola A/S, GmbH, Inc, Ltd, S.A.S. Multiple Access Communications Ltd National Communications System National Communications Authority of Hungary National Institute of Standards and Technology NATO C3 Agency Orbacom Systems Inc PacketHop Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) QINETIC (formerly DERA) Qualcomm Europe SARL, Inc. Rincon Research Corporation Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd Selenia Mobile SIAC Sitesafe, Inc Tait Electronics Ltd Tata Consultancy Services TDC Tele Danmark, Telelaboratoriet Thales BGLJ France Thales Communications AS T-Systems Nova GmbH Unisys Deutschland GmbH
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35 Public Safety Members
American Red Cross, NHQ APCO APCO Project 25 Steering Committee APEC e-Government Research Center Beredskab Storkøbenhavn Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Bureau of Emergency Services Telecommunications, - DoJ Chief Technology Officer of the District of Columbia City of NY Department of Information Technology City of Scottsdale (Municipal Government) CNEH / SAMU Federal Bureau of Investigation Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service HESCULAEP Consortium High Point Fire Department Industry Canada ITU-Waseda ICT research Center Lancashire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service Maryland State Police NASA Glenn Research Center National Institute of Justice National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Norwegian National Police Directorate Norwood Fire Department NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration Phoenix Fire Department Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) SAFECOM SAMU de France San Francisco Dept. of Health, EMS Emergency Operations Center SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) Toronto Police Service UK Highways Agency US Dept of Commerce NTIA
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MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• Meet twice a year
• Completed our twelfth meeting
• Alternating between Europe and North America
• Electronic working methods at meetings
• Electronic methods for discussions between
  meetings
• Consensus Process with balanced leadership
• Project MESA is unique in that requirements are
  derived from actual PPDR professionals
• MESA SoR (being harmonized w/ national efforts)
• Any national process can appropriately utilize
  and benefit from SoR (openly available to view)

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MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• Goals are to (1) internationally coordinate
  requirements/capabilities/scenarios, and (2)
  develop technology specifications for
  (inter)operable mobile broadband data for PPDR
• Coordinated international collection of user
  requirements and technical derivations
• OPs transpose MESA specs into regional and
  national standards
• Facilitate economies of scale, identified
  commonalities
• Leverage existing and emerging technology
• Facilitate enhanced capabilities for Emergency
  Responders and other professionals with similar
  needs

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• Coordinated requirements and standards drive
  growth
• May help establish a common infrastructure for
  competing products to interoperate
• Simplifies development by defining a minimum set
  of common requirements
• Enables new business opportunities and
  potentially even new markets
• Consistency in marketplace
• Critical for PPDR sector
• Not a market draw like commercial services

Patents
Trade Secrets
Innovation
Standards and Industry Specifications
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MESA Partnership for Broadband PPDR

• MESA Service Specification Group - Services and
  Applications (Users)
• Statement of Requirements (SoR)
• MESA 11 approved a revised user-defined MESA SoR
  
• Available as TS 70.001 V3.2.1
• http//www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/
• Currently being transposed by TIA and U.S. PS
  groups
• MESA SoR identifies
• Mission descriptions and capability needs
• General functional requirements
• Operational requirements
• Technology and applications
• Compatibility requirements
• Scenarios

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MESA Scenarios

• Typical scenarios were developed to stimulate
  thought about possible applications

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MESA Scenario Classes

• MESA scenarios are broken into classes
• Environment
• Situation
• Coverage

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Goal is to utilize common specs that are
applicable to multiple combinations

• Identified services can be sorted into 12
  different categories or combinations
• Indoor/Day-by-Day/Single Spot
• Indoor/Emergency/Single Spot
• Urban/Day-by-Day/Single Spot
• Urban/Day-by-Day/Wide Area
• Urban/Emergency/Single Spot
• Urban/Emergency/Wide Area
• Urban/Disaster/Wide Area
• Rural/Day-by-Day/Single Spot
• Rural/Day-by-Day/Wide Area
• Rural/Emergency/Single Spot
• Rural/Emergency/Wide Area
• Rural/Disaster/Wide Area

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Example of Network Architecture
(1)Indoor/EmergencyDay-by-Day/Single Spot
Remote Control Centre
ISDN PSTN xDSL
MESA Router
MESA Router
MESA AP

• Peer-to-peer connection
• AP-to-MESA nodes connection
• AP-to-MESA router connection
• Interoperability with external access networks
  both wired and wireless
• Interconnection through MESA backhaul to the RCC

MESA Node
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Example of Network Architecture
(2)RuralUrban/Emergency/Single Spot

• Peer-to-peer connection
• AP-to-MESA nodes connection
• Interoperability with external access networks
  (TETRA, P25, TETRAPOL, 2G/2.5/3G,802.xx, )
• Interconnection through the backhaul to the
  Remote Control Centre (Command)

Satellite backhaul
Remote Control Centre (RCC)
MESA APRouter
MESA Node
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Example of Network Architecture (3)
RuralUrban/EmergencyDisaster/Wide Area
Satellite backhaul

• Peer-to-peer connection including AP-to-MESA
  nodes connection and AP-to-AP connection and
  AP-to-MESA router connection
• Interoperability with external access networks
• Interconnection through the backhaul to the RCC

Remote Control Centre
MESA AP router
HAP backhaul
MESA Node
MESA AProuter
MESA GW
MESA AP router
MESA Node
MESA Node
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Example of Network Architecture
(4)RuralUrban/Day-by-Day/Single spotWide Area

• Interoperability with external access networks
• Interconnection through the satellite link to the
  Remote Control Centre

Satellite backhaul
Remote Control Centre (RCC)
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MESA Technical Specification Group - System

• MESA Technical Specification Group (TSG) now
  active in deriving technical specs from the MESA
  SoR user requirements
• MESA 11 also approved a System Overview document
  (shows relationships between network)
• This Technical Report is available as TR 70.012
  V3.1.1
• http//www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/

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MESA Technical System Features

• Examples of high-level MESA-defined user
  requirements, to be translated into technical
  parameters for broadband data system needs for
  safety and emergency services
• Reliable (day-to-day, critical conditions,
  special events, ad-hoc)
• Able to ensure multiple levels of security and
  encryption
• Easy and fast to deploy, as applicable
• Able to guarantee the requested Quality of
  Service (QoS)
• Flexible
• Adaptable, reconfigurable, scalable
• Self-organizing
• Able to locate nodes, sensors, robots
• Interoperable w/ existing ad-hoc private and
  public infrastructures
• Can be complementary to and interwork with
  wireline/other infrastructure components
• Broadband
• Mobile
• Low-power consumable

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MESA Technical System Features

• Main themes
• Auto-establishing, self-healing, robust
• Plug and play Resilient
• Ad-hoc and Mesh networking
• Bit rates approaching 2 Mbits/sec above (i.e.,
  ITU-R definition for Broadband)
• Independent (agnostic) of radio spectrum
• Cognitive capabilities
• A reasonable tuning capability included in the
  key technology to accommodate regional
  requirements (cognitive or multi-band chip)
• Dedicated or non-dedicated spectrum depending on
  needs
• Secure end-to-end transparent encryption (as
  required)
• Seamless switching to global broadband
  infrastructure
• Enhanced access and terminal capabilities
• Potentially independent of public infrastructures
  and public supply of electrical power

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MESA Technical System Features

• A realized system could be installed as either a
  private system owned by the government or a
  governmental/commercial partnership that provides
  applicable service to PPDR-related agencies
• Need for aeronautical and/or terrestrial digital
  broadband data over mobile wireless communication
  links (voice is secondary)
• Dedicated and/or non-dedicated spectrum
  depending on deployment options (could also
  utilize commercial capacity (for data/voice) to
  enhance existing voice systems or provide
  redundancy)
• Process also supports ongoing migration path
  efforts from today's analog systems to the next
  generations of PPDR digital systems

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System Reference Model Architecture
MESA as a System of Systems
Other
New Technology
Ad-hoc
Project MESA
New Technology
New Technology
Other
MESA Solution Space
Cellular (2, 2, 3G)
UWB
B3G, 4G
New Technology
Mobile Broadband
New Technology
Trunked
New Technology

• Technical Fora
• Standardizationbodies

Broadband
MESA Search Space
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Common Technical Specifications
Common Service Specifications
Intl SDOs other uses
MESA Documents
Via OPs
ETSI Standards
TIA Standards
Other Partners Standards
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MESA Technology Potential

• Mobile Ad-hoc networks
• Moving hot spot (Managed)
• Auto establishing network
• self-healing
• Ultra-fast deployment

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Camera is Calling
Automatic Recognition Detection
Capabilities - Sound - Image - Movement -
Material - Radiation
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Broadband out there

• Rural terrestrial SATCOM support
• Up/Down voice and data links
• Mobile Broadband Repeater
• Remote Disasters
• Evidence gathering
• Real-time ID
• Surveillance
• Remote sensing

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Other MESA Applications

• Mobile robotics
• Remote hazardous material inspection and removal
• Anti-terrorist action
• Rescue in hazardous locations
• Incident response (tactical and non-tactical)

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Other MESA Applications

• Remote patient assistance monitoring
• (Emergency and Medical Services--EMS)
• Video on-line
• Blood pressure
• Cardiac activity
• Encephalographic data
• Body temperature

Bit-rates can help save lives
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Other MESA Applications

• The MESA Firefighter
• Biometric monitoring
• Full Command Control and Communication (C3)
• Infra-red/visible light video monitoring
• Positioning (to 3D)
• Environment monitoring

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Example of full on-site Command Control and
Communication
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• Fast, deployable, compatible
• Auto-establishes network
• Recognize terminals

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network The Moving Hot-Spot
Airborne Control
Backhaul Satcom Link
The MESA Firefighter
Telemedical Assistance
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MESA Technology Potential
Network terminal components automatically
establish a functioning network based on wireless
nodes. Underlying BB capability.
MESA City
Fixed/Wireless Ad-Hoc Network
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Moving Forward

• Progress existing Work Items
• MESA TSG SYS articulating MESA SoR into technical
  capabilities and specifications
• MESA deliverables will be developed and
  transposed, as necessary, into national/regional
  standards involving next-generation mobile
  broadband technology for PS, security and
  emergency response professionals
• Approved Specs recently transmitted to OPs for
  transposition
• User-defined SoR is Living Document and so open
  to revision as needed (contribution-based)

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Moving Forward

• MESA participants will utilize System of
  Systems capabilities and specifications approach
• Leverage existing or near-term technologies/servic
  es that are capable of providing needed bandwidth
  and convergence services for Next-Generation PS
  communications and access options (high
  security/varied connectivity)
• Identify PS requirement gaps in existing
  standards
• Develop specifications for new or adapted
  technologies/services where none currently exists
  that support PS needs

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Moving Forward

• MESA 12 (Boston, April 2006) saw the
  introduction of five technology proposals by
  manufacturers and providers
• Important step forward (Press Release will be
  available soon)
• Enhanced capability Proposals currently include
  cdma2000 EV-DO, OFDMA, W-CDMA-HSDPA,
  802.11x/ma/PHY, 802.16e and satellite
• Next 6 months Air Interface Incident Area
  Networking Technologies and Specifications
  analysis from Industry Responses received
• Other proposals welcome next meeting (must follow
  format set at this meeting)
• Broadband Data is primary concern (voice
  secondary)
• Location Based Services also identified for
  short-term
• MayDay XML Data Tags work too (fire, EMS, etc.)
• Longer term Focus Jurisdiction Networking
  Broadband Specifications and Interworking
  Specifications

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Moving Forward

• Example The District of Columbia deployed a
  successful pilot network based on Flash-OFDM in
  2004 in the 700 MHz band
• Flash-OFDM (orthogonal frequency division
  multiplexing) divides spectrum into several
  equally spaced tones or frequencies, which
  ensures there is no interference between users on
  the same cell
• The IP-based technology is spectrum-agnostic, can
  operate in interference-riddled spectrum and is
  able to transmit data at peak rates of 3 Mb/s,
  with average throughputs of 1.5 Mb/s

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Moving Forward

• MESH Technology Example
• A quad-radio product that operates in both the
  2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands
• Currently being deployed in 12 U.S. cities this
  platform type uses two standard 802.11 radios and
  two proprietary Mesh-Enabled Architecture (MEA)
  radios in one solution
• The four radios can be turned up as needed and
  intelligently configured either as access or
  backhaul on a link-by-link basis
• Other Mesh features include fast self-forming,
  self-healing, built-in location and tracking of
  radios via triangulation, and support for user
  connectivity at megabit speeds
• Such a system also can support seamless handoff
  between nodes
• Eventually will be married with WiMAX once
  802.16e is standardized and profiled to work in
  the unlicensed band (in U.S.)

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Moving Forward

• MESA OPs, including ETSI and TIA, continue to
  facilitate government and industry awareness and
  coordination
• Encourage participation in, or communication
  with, Project MESA (via OPs TIA and ETSI) by
  affected agencies and administrations, standards
  groups, equipment providers, service providers,
  research organizations, etc.
• TIA and ETSI working to raise awareness/outreach
  levels (regionally/globally), coordinating
  existing and identifying future RD efforts for
  critical Next-Generation needs of Public safety,
  security and emergency users

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Moving Forward

• The MESA approach represents a continuing
  challenge to the industry, as public safety
  organizations may require communications (1) to
  operate on a variety of networks and systems,
  from dedicated radio to personal area, incident
  area and jurisdictional networks, to 3G networks
  and beyond and (2) include very stringent form
  factors, network integrity, QoS, and other
  requirements not normally found in most
  commercial deployments
• Such capabilities will extend the tools available
  for emergency communications users
• Including video and high-speed data in
  ubiquitous, wide-area, multiple agency or
  stand-alone (ad-hoc) networks and voice

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TIA Contact Information

• David Thompson
• Staff Director, Global Standards and Technology
• Tel [phone]
• dthompson_at_tiaonline.org
• www.tiaonline.org
• www.projectmesa.org

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Project MESA Contacts

• Main Web site
• www.projectmesa.org
• Information also available at
• www.tiaonline.org and http//www.tiaonline.org/sta
  ndards/technology/mesa/
• (Re MESA, TR-8, TR-45)
• MESA Secretariat
• mesasupport_at_etsi.org

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