19 November 2024

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An industry-wide standards-compliant approach is essential to ensure broadband applications for critical communications users are mission-critical quality. This is a key takeaway from a new white paper from TCCA, based on the results of a sector-wide survey, which also highlights the importance of testing and certification of applications designed to support mission-critical operations.

A wide range of broadband applications are already in use by critical communications users. However, the majority of these applications are currently deployed over commercial networks, with over-the-top, best-effort Quality of Service (QoS). As broadband data applications become increasingly important for day-to-day operations, users will demand their applications to be delivered with mission-critical QoS.

19 November 2024

UK fire and rescue services (FRSs) Hereford and Worcester FRS, Shropshire FRS, Cleveland Fire Brigade and Country Durham & Darlington FRS have selected Motorola Solutions to deploy a new Control Room Solution (CRS) utilising a shared control room platform to allow the four control rooms to work independently as well as a collaborative services hub.

The new solution integrates workflows from initial call taking to dispatch, into an intuitive and unified response system. It will standardise data and processes and provide control room staff with the ability to more quickly respond to incidents and be able to scale operations and capabilities in times of high demand.