LTE Band 14 Demo Network Testing Involved More Than 200 Personnel, FirstNet Says
A 36-hour fall test of a public safety LTE band 14 demonstration network involved more than 200 people, including state and federal law enforcement officers and special agents from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), Colorado State Patrol, Clear Creek County…
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Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, and Idaho Springs Police Department, said a blog post from FirstNet Monday. Colorado’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) and the CPW installed the temporary network in support of a hunter checkpoint along a chain-up area in the Idaho Springs, Colorado, area, it said. The network provided a convenient method of data entry using touch-screens and barcode scanning through smartphones that had wireless connections to local servers supporting multiple databases with no outside connectivity, said FirstNet. The band 14 demonstration network is an early example of a vehicular network system showing the value of these types of platforms in isolated locations, where a large contingent of public safety personnel require interoperable communication support, said FirstNet.