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Test and Measurement: NIST boosts mission-critical feature testing
A new project supported by funding from the National Institute for Standards and Technology focuses on testing-as-a-service for mission-critical communications features, including MC push-to-talk, data and video.
NIST's Public Safety Communications Research Division, which provided a grant of $3.5 million to the Networking, Quality and...
APCO2019: First look at FirstNet’s network reinvestment priorities
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND -- The First Responders Network Authority will be receiving about $18 billion in payments from AT&T over the 25-year-term of its contract to build out and operate the nationwide FirstNet network for public safety. An estimated $16 billion of that is expected...
Hosting an ETSI plugtest: 31 VPNs, 120 engineers, 2,100 test cases
LAS VEGAS -- What does it take to host an ETSI plugtest event? A whole lot of bandwidth -- literally and figuratively -- months of planning, and a trio of adorable puppy mascots.
During a session at the International Wireless Communications Expo, Walt Magnussen, director...
What is MCPTT over LTE?
What is MCPTT over LTE?
Mission-critical push-to-talk over LTE, or MCPTT over LTE, is an LTE feature that was first introduced in Release 13 in 2016 as the Third Generation Partnership Project sought to include LTE features that allowed the technology to better address the...