Andrew Seybold Proposes Five-Point First Responder Communications Interoperability Plan.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. -- With interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. issues continuing to impact first responder first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency incident communications and with the 700-MHz spectrum auctions looming, it is critical that a comprehensive plan be devised that considers the needs of both the commercial and first responder communities, writes wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. analyst Andrew M. Seybold in the March 19 edition of his online publication, Commentary. Seybold calls on the commercial wireless and public safety sectors to work together on such a plan. The spectrum issue is one element of a detailed five-point national program that Seybold outlines for "Onational interoperability O on a local level." Complete text of the March 19 Commentary can be viewed free at http://www.outlook4mobility.com/commentary2007/mar2007.htm. "What is at issue is that during an incident, all first responders on the scene need to be able to communicate within the established command structure that grows in real time as an incident grows," he writes. "We need a solid communications link between any first responder dispatched to an incident, be they from a neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. town, another state or the federal government," he writes, noting that technology, funding and political issues need to be resolved. "The only true solution to first responder interoperability is to have contiguous spectrum and build radios capable of being used by agencies on a standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. basis but with the ability to communicate cross-agency when needed, on a controlled basis, via the command structure." Seybold's five points include: * A nationwide, private Internet IPV IPV poliovirus vaccine inactivated. IPV abbr. inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV see infectious pustular vulvovaginitis. 6 first responder network * A nationwide but regional radio system on 700-MHz spectrum employing commercial and specialized technologies * A common set of radios * Network construction * Funding Seybold projects that such a plan can be executed in five-to-ten years and that it would solve many of the communications problems that exist today in the first responder community. As an analyst and consultant, Seybold works widely within the commercial and first responder communities. For more information please visit www.4mobility.com. |
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