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Broadband Interoperability – Closing the Loop of Interoperable Communications

Robin Grier  (President, Catalyst Communications Technologies Inc.)

Ken Rehbehn  (Founder and Principal Analyst, Critical Communications Insights, LLC)

Ritesh Desai  (Product Engineering Manager, Southern Linc)

Jim Holthaus  (Wireless Communication SME, Consultant to US Department of Justice)

Location: N259

Date: Tuesday, March 18

Time: 2:55 pm - 3:55 pm

Track: First Responders

Topics: Broadband, Interoperability, PTT, Regulatory & Legal + Standards

Format: Panel Session

Vault Recording: TBD

Now interoperable communications between any land mobile radio, on virtually any LMR Network, standards compliant mission critical push to talk devices on smartphones connected to broadband/LTE networks, and proprietary push to talk over cellular devices can all communicate with each other for the first time. At this session you'll hear about the initial deployments, their use cases, the technology that creates interoperable sessions across different networks, and the next set of capabilities that need innovation to further mission critical communications. The panel will also summarize the lessons learned from the initial deployments of a Broadband Interoperability Platform.

Takeaway

- Learn the need for interoperable communications between the many new Broadband / Smartphone networks and how the technology creates these communications
- Listen to use cases and communications challenges needing a comprehensive interoperability solution, and how their initial use cases are evolving
- Learn the recommended naming convention for Interoperability Talk Groups and provide feedback to the project team.