2026 Agenda

Public Safety and First Responders are utilizing an array of emerging systems, sensors, platforms, and communications methods to augment situational awareness, mission partner collaboration, and Command and Control to enhance contingency, emergency, critical infrastructure, transportation, utilities and defense operations. This new landscape represents an emerging technical baseline which must scale, adapt and connect to meet a variety of mission-sets and operational environments utilizing a multitude of communications paths that dynamically enable best available bandwidth, optimization of RF power and speed using the power of AI. In short, using agency policy-based AI to keep the First Responders connected automatically.

Public Safety, First Responders, Public Works, Transportation and utilities require seamless and automated rerouting of communications connectivity across multiple paths to meet the 21st century demands for data driven decisions, information and assistance to perform life, safety and property saving services. This is especially critical for main and backup infrastructure with FirstNet for 911 centers, UAS and radio networks.

Intel has prototyped a real-world technical approach which seamlessly integrates different wireless access technologies including Wi-Fi, 4G/LTE, 5G, satellite, licensed or CBRS bands. To meet the "Always Connected" demands on critical infrastructure, the Generic Multi-Access (GMA) system was developed to support four or more simultaneous links that can interoperate with existing network infrastructure and off-the-shelf equipment supporting the required multi-path traffic management schemes: resilient backhaul, steering, switching, splitting, and duplicating traffic to enable redundant and resilient connectivity using multiple connections while meeting Public Safety requirements and assuring reliability.

Takeaway

• The GMA ecosystem
o A policy-driven communications manager utilizes multiple paths of communication to bond channels for higher bandwidth providing critical infrastructure and users automated and seamless bandwidth, capacity, assuredness and resilience
o Improved redundancy of packet delivery or selective traffic control over preferred paths as dictated via policy
o Provide the automation and intelligence to optimize in milliseconds versus accomplished in minutes, hours and days.
o Multi-access connections provide extra diversity for imposing reliability enhancement techniques.