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
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
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).
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
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?
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
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...
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
CCBG participants
Over 60 participating organisations
10%
10%
Utility
9%
Health
10%
17%
Transport
7%
Fire
60%
10%
Consultant
Police
Government
3%
Representative range
of user types
Industry
2%
Observer
2%
Operator
Regulator
Research
14%
Standards
User
41%
5%
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
CCBG external relationships
Canada
APCO Global
e.g.
Australasia
Applications
WG
SFPG
Marketing
Group
CITIG
CSS
CATA
USA
APCO
NIST
NPSTC
3GPP
International
Standards
OUA
ETSI
TCCA
Technical
Forum
CCBG
Spectrum
Coordination
Transport
Group
Spectrum
FM 49
CEPT/ECC
WG FM
Europe
EU / EC
PSC-E
LEWP of JHA
Council
Political
DG CONNECT
RSCOM
Research
Bodies
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
CCBG structure
Internal TCCA WG’s &
external partners liaison
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
The Strategic Case
“WHY CMB?”
“What’s the value?”
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
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
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
3GPP Standards Progress
WIDs!
•
ProSe & GCSE-LTE accepted as
Work Item Descriptions (WIDs)
included in 3GPP LTE R12
•
The hard work has started...!
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
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:
www.tandcca.com/Library/Documents/CCBGMissionCriticalMobi
leBroadbandwhitepaper2013.pdf
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
A service evolution continuum
Standardised
servicesincluding
& applications
(incl. control
room)
Cloud
-based Applications
Control Room
Applications
•
•
•
TETRA,
P25, etc.
PMR/LMR
networks
Single sign-on services (security)
Communications services - including PMR/LMR
applications
applications,
Subscriber ,&Subscribers
group management,
group calls,
etc. calls)
& group management,
Group
Non Mission
Critical data
(commercial LTE)
Mission Critical
Data
(Private LTE)
Mission Critical
Voice
(Private LTE)
Upgrade
Learn
Build
Migrate
1
2
3
4
Mission Critical V+D services
until LTE readiness & maturity
Using commercial
3G/4G carriers
Strategic: requires spectrum for private LTE
TIME / STAGE
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
CCBG in the news & on show
– TETRA Today report
– Interview @ 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:
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
Hungarian partners…
Join & participate!
Work with us “Towards a Broadband Future”!
The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)
Thanks
Q&A
Tony Gray
Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group
Regional Business Director
P3 communications GmbH
email: tony.gray@p3-group.com
tel: +49 151 276 54501
www.tandcca.com/assoc/page/18100
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