1. “TOWARDS A BROADBAND FUTURE”
TETRA & Critical Communications in Hungary
6th Professional Mobile Communications Workshop
Budapest, April 2013
“TOWARDS A BROADBAND FUTURE”
The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG)
Tony Gray
Board Member, TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG)
Regional Business Director
P3 communications GmbH

2. Taking the broadband agenda forward
The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is working with other stakeholder groups worldwide to:
drive the standardisation of future common, global, mobile broadband technology solutions for Critical Comms users.
lobby regulators etc. for appropriate - & as far as possible harmonised - spectrum for deployment of future Critical Comms broadband networks.
Thus the CCBG’s goals are to:
enable all Critical Comms users to access their information systems, apps. etc. reliably & at broadband speeds on their professional mobile devices wherever they are & whenever they have the need.
ensure that future Critical Comms broadband solutions meet the particular needs of Critical Comms users just as reliably as today’s voice & narrowband data services are delivered by current technologies (e.g. TETRA).

3. Some key issues…
Technology: can LTE infrastructures & services be made adequately reliable, resilient & available in practice for Critical Mobile use?
all things are possible with the application of sufficient resources…
Spectrum: can regulators be persuaded to assign enough, & in suitable bands, for Critical Mobile BB services to be operated in?
thus far only in North America (700 MHz) & Australia (800 MHz)…
Budgets: can administrations, politicians, funds-holders, etc. be convinced of the value of investment in Critical Mobile BB services?
hence will delivering such services prove financially & practically viable?
Delivery: what are the available options & relative pro’s & con’s?
e.g. resource/service sharing with commercial operators, MVNO models, etc?

4. Stakeholder collaboration
CCBG participants include:
user organisations, governments, operators, standards & regulatory bodies, equipment manufacturers & suppliers, consultants, etc.
all members & partner organisations of the TCCA are entitled to participate
The list of CCBG’s collaborative & cooperative relationships with other stakeholder groups globally is continually growing:
UIC (European railways)
E-UTC (European utilities)
PSC-E (European public safety)
NPSTC & NIST (USA)
CITIG & CATA (Canada)
APCO Global (e.g. Australasia)
and so on...

5. CCBG participants Over 60 participating organisations
Representative range
of user types
Over 60 participating organisations

6. CCBG external relationships
APCO Global
e.g. Australasia
APCO
NPSTC
NIST
CITIG
CATA
CSS
Canada
USA
International
ETSI
3GPP
Standards
Transport
Group
Technical
Forum
SFPG
Marketing
Applications WG
OUA
TCCA
CCBG
Spectrum
Coordination
PSC-E
RSCOM
DG CONNECT
LEWP of JHA
Council
Europe
EU / EC
Research
Bodies
Political
FM 49
WG FM
CEPT/ECC
Spectrum

7. Internal TCCA WG’s & external partners liaison
CCBG structure
CCBG Management Group
CCBG WG SA
System Architecture
& Technical
CCBG Spectrum
Coordinator
CCBG WG UR
User & Operator
Requirements
CCBG WG SC
Strategic Case
CCBG
Secretariat
Internal TCCA WG’s & external partners liaison

8. “WHY CMB?” “What’s the value?”
The Strategic Case
“WHY CMB?” “What’s the value?”

9. Technology standardisation
Aimed at including support of fundamentally required features for critical comms applications in future standards releases, e.g. for:
Group working
Direct mode
Resilience & security
Speech as well as data services

10. 3GPP Standards Progress
WIDs!
ProSe & GCSE-LTE accepted as Work Item Descriptions (WIDs) included in 3GPP LTE R12
The hard work has started...!

11. CCBG White Paper
Information & guidelines for users, operators & others considering implementing mission critical mobile broadband services.
Sets out predicted timeframe for availability of suitable standards & equipment.
Outline roadmap for LTE as a technology evolution for TETRA & other existing mission critical systems.
Download today at: leBroadbandwhitepaper2013.pdf

12. A service evolution continuum
Learn 2
Non Mission
Critical data
(commercial LTE)
Cloud -
based Applications including Control Room
Applications
applications,
, Subscribers & group management, Group calls)
Single sign-on services (security)
Communications services - including PMR/LMR applications
Subscriber & group management, group calls, etc.
Standardised services & applications (incl. control room)
Using commercial
3G/4G carriers 4 3
Build
Mission Critical
Data
(Private LTE)
Voice
Migrate
Strategic: requires spectrum for private LTE
Upgrade 1
TETRA,
P25, etc.
PMR/LMR
networks
Mission Critical V+D services
until LTE readiness & maturity
TIME / STAGE

13. CCBG in the news & on show
TETRA Today report
PMR Expo ’12, Cologne
Telecoms.com interview
ASTRID (Belgium) ‘SWITCH’ magazine interview (in French & Dutch!)
3GPP White Paper – ‘Public Safety’
VIRVE (Finland) magazine interview
Workshops & presentations at:

14. Work with us “Towards a Broadband Future”!
Hungarian partners…
Join & participate!
Work with us “Towards a Broadband Future”!

15. Thanks
Q&A
Tony Gray
Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group
Regional Business Director
P3 communications GmbH
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