Spectrum Policy for the

21st Century – The

President’s Spectrum

Policy Initiative

 

A Public Safety Sharing

Demonstration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, SECRETARY

 

JOHN M. R. KNEUER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR

 COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

 

June 2007

 

 

 

LEADERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTORS

 

National Telecommunications & Information Administration

 

The Honorable John M. R. Kneuer

Assistant Secretary for Communications

and Information

 

Meredith A. Baker

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications

and Information

 

 

Office of Spectrum Management

 

Karl B. Nebbia

Associate Administrator

 

 

 

Emergency Planning and Public Safety Division

 

William A. Belote

Division Chief

 

Richard J. Orsulak

Team Lead

 

Charles T. Hoffman

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) would like to thank the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), under the direction and leadership of Robert LeGrande, for providing the necessary support and information during the demonstration of this pilot; and Televate, LLC for providing the necessary contract work for NTIA during the demonstration and development of this report.

 


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Table of Contents

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS.................................................................................... xi

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY....................................................................................................... xiii

Section 1 - introduction.............................................................................................. 1-1

BACKGROUND...................................................................................................................... 1-1

OBJECTIVES........................................................................................................................... 1-3

APPROACH............................................................................................................................ 1-3

Section 2 - Selection Criteria................................................................................... 2-1

Section 3 - the warn pilot............................................................................................ 3-1

BACKGROUND...................................................................................................................... 3-1

SPECTRUM CONSIDERATIONS.......................................................................................... 3-2

WARN overview................................................................................................................ 3-4

Purpose................................................................................................................................. 3-4

Applications........................................................................................................................... 3-4

Timeline................................................................................................................................. 3-7

Users..................................................................................................................................... 3-7

Funding................................................................................................................................. 3-8

Technology/Vendor Selection................................................................................................. 3-8

Network Construction......................................................................................................... 3-10

TECHNICAL ASPECTS........................................................................................................ 3-10

Overview............................................................................................................................. 3-10

Devices............................................................................................................................... 3-13

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.................................................................................................. 3-14

Overview............................................................................................................................. 3-14

Network Performance......................................................................................................... 3-15

Subscriber Device Performance........................................................................................... 3-17

Application Performance...................................................................................................... 3-18

NETWORK USAGE.............................................................................................................. 3-19

Customer Feedback............................................................................................................ 3-21

SIGNIFICANT WARN DEPLOYMENTS............................................................................ 3-23

Presidential Inauguration, January 2005................................................................................ 3-24

Independence Day, July 2005.............................................................................................. 3-25

Independence Day, July 2006.............................................................................................. 3-27