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Issue 6 2014
T
he Emergency Services
Mobile Communications
Programme (ESMCP) has
been put in place by the government
to look at the future of mission
critical communications. Technology
is evolving, and commercial
networks are rolling out high speed
LTE capability with the promise of
ever-faster data downloads.
LTE stands for Long Term Evolution,
and is the next generation technology
being rolled out by UK commercial
operators. Work is underway to
enhance LTE to enable it to deliver
mission critical communications in
the future with the exacting features
required by the blue light services.
We all agree that LTE is the long
term future for the emergency
services, but there is naturally much
debate about when that future will
arrive. In the meantime, how can we
help mission critical communications
users define the types of services
they will require in that LTE future?
And importantly, how can we help
them take advantage of new, data-
rich technologies today without the
need to wait for this LTE capability?
Rather than waiting for LTE to
be fully rolled out and then starting
to explore the possible public
safety applications, Airwave is
exploring these today, so that we
are able to exploit current and future
technologies as quickly as possible.
EUROS EVANS
Chief Technology Of cer, Airwave
Preparing the way for miss
