Many public safety agencies across the nation continue to rely upon their traditional land mobile radio (LMR) networks for primary day-to-day operations. As FirstNet continues to expand coverage and evolve technology, agencies are exploring and deploying mission critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) services over broadband LTE. Relying on LMR as a sole communications tool comes with challenges and limitations.

As agencies from across the nation are beginning to transition some of their operations to MCPTT over broadband LTE and using LTE as an augmentation to their existing LMR systems, this session will explore several public safety agencies use and augmentation of broadband LTE to support their mission-critical operations and discuss the successes and challenges experienced with the deployment of this innovative technology.

Takeaway

Understand how broadband LTE technology is being used operationally to augment traditional LMR systems

Understand how broadband mission-critical push to talk operates in a mission-critical environment

Learn how the use of broadband LTE technology can offer cost-savings for agencies that implement this technology

Hear about successes and challenges faced by public safety agencies as they implement and deploy this technology