Correction please note FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR NATIONWIDE MOBILE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

 To have mentioned any endorsement by other than me was premature. Please dis-remember. Dave


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> From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Date: June 15, 2010 12:02:25 PM EDT
> To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR NATIONWIDE MOBILE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND 
> NETWORK
> Reply-To: dave () farber net

> The paper is at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-298799A1.pdf
>
> FCC RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS ON NETWORK CAPACITY FOR NATIONWIDE MOBILE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK
>
> Washington, D.C. -- The Federal Communications Commission today released a comprehensive white paper which provides 
> the capacity analysis behind the National Broadband Plan recommendations for the deployment and operation of a 
> nationwide 4G wireless public safety network that allows first responders to seamlessly communicate across 
> geographies and agencies, regardless of devices.
> The white paper, titled: “The Public Safety Nationwide Interoperable Broadband Network, A New Model For Capacity, 
> Performance and Cost”, shows that the 10 MHz of dedicated spectrum currently allocated to public safety will provide 
> the capacity and performance necessary for day-to-day communications and serious emergency situations. One study 
> cited in the white paper shows that 10 MHz of spectrum can yield the same capacity as over 160 MHz if the correct 
> technology, architecture, and devices are used. As part of this analysis, the FCC examined two real life events, the 
> Minneapolis Bridge Collapse and Hurricane Ike hitting Houston, and additional empirical data which supports this 
> conclusion.
>
> “Our goal is to bring true interoperable mobile broadband communications to America’s first responders,” said Jamie 
> Barnett, Chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB). “The FCC study shows how we can 
> maximize capacity, performance, reliability and resiliency of public safety broadband communications even in the most 
> extraordinary emergencies when life-saving response efforts are underway and communications demands are at their 
> peak.”
>
> For the worst emergencies, the FCC has devised an innovative concept of priority access and roaming across the 
> commercial broadband wireless spectrum that will make at least 50 or 60 MHz of additional spectrum immediately 
> available to public safety. The white paper describes how 10, 20 or even 30 MHz of additional dedicated spectrum may 
> not be sufficient to support public safety broadband communications in a major emergency, and how the priority access 
> and roaming exceeds the public safety spectrum that would otherwise be available. Moreover, it provides public safety 
> with dependability and back up support, which does not exist with a purely dedicated network.
>
> Barnett noted, “The key is capacity. Spectrum is only one factor. This plan provides extraordinary capacity to public 
> safety, first with a dedicated network, backed with first-in-line privileges for public safety. This plan is like 
> providing public safety with its own expandable, high speed lane, and it is a cost- effective investment in a 
> national asset. Merely allocating an additional 10 MHz to public safety would be like building a separate, 
> stand-alone highway system, and one so expensive that it would not even reach every community in America for years.”
>
> This paper was 
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