 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | Why? Why does an ambulance in New York have to have broadband access to a fire house in Los Angeles?
We are not talking about a Department of Defense system, the DOD has a private system beyond what we will ever know. |
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 dispatcher21911 Where is your emergency?
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| Being able to have broadband access from NY to LA is of course possible with this but I dont think thats what the intended purpose is. Think more locally/statewide. As more of the techonology for dispatch is IP based, this would be a backup for local agencies incase their system went down due to weather or terrorist attacks. With the new IP phone systems and IP radio out there, if there was an outage of local resources, it would be awesome to be able to use this as a backup. 911 trunks damaged. No problem, switch the server over to this, a quick call to Qwest and the calls get re-routed. Radio towers are down? No problem, switch the radio server to the back up and your up and going. So yes, you can have coast to coast interopibilty if needed but I see it more as a backup for when local resources go down. |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
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00000 | why not just use existing satellite phones as backup? i'd say that is as disaster proof as it gets.
no need to reinvent the wheel, right? |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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| said by morbo:why not just use existing satellite phones as backup? i'd say that is as disaster proof as it gets. no need to reinvent the wheel, right? This is just some small fish trying to grab prime spectrum at no or little cost. They admit most of the spectrum most of the time would be used commercially. If they can't pay for the spectrum that is tough, it goes to the highest bidder as US need the money.
The DoD doesn't share its network with leaches. |
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