ARLA/CLUSTER: Reino Unido anuncia detalhes para dispositivos da Rede de Serviços de Emergência

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

U.K. releases device details for the Emergency Services Network

The U.K. government released a prior information notice (PIN) for
devices to operate on the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the
public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) nationwide network planned to
replace the country’s TETRA network managed by Airwave.

The Secretary of State for the Home Department intends to put in place
a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for use by the three emergency
services and other ESN users. The estimated duration of the ESN
devices DPS is a minimum of four years, and the estimated cost is
between 30 to 150 million pounds (US$39 million to US$197.1 million).

The requirements include establishing a DPS for ESN devices,
accessories and services to allow suppliers to bid for and supply
ESN-approved devices. Approved devices will be tested to ensure they
are capable of carrying out public-safety communications services and
do not adversely affect the ESN and/or the Airwave network.

The department is requiring 1,500 production standard trial devices of
various types for operational trials and pilots starting mid-2017.
These trials devices will be procured incrementally, using the DPS,
for the operational trials and pilots. About 300,000 production
standard devices will be required for the three emergency services to
transition from Airwave to ESN with the first procurement starting in
the second quarter of 2017, prior to the start of the first regional
transition in September 2017.

The categories of devices include the following:
• Handheld devices — standard, ruggedized, single and dual-mode
LTE/TETRA devices;
• Specialist — direct device-to-device communications;
• Active accessories — wireless, wired and batteries;
• Passive accessories — cases and device carriage on clothing;
• Vehicle devices — four-wheel vehicle ESN modems, devices and gateway
devices and two-wheel vehicle ESN devices and waterborne ESN devices;
• Vehicle accessories;
• Vehicle installation design and implementation;
• Managed services; and
• Unified — any combination of the other categories

There will be 12 regions with a staggered start, and each region will
take up to a year to transition. The transition is forecast to last up
to 27 months and should be completed by the end of 2019.

Read the full Radio Resource International article:
http://www.radioresourcemag.com/News/NewsDetails/newsID/14612