Televate technical and program management staff have supported the District of Columbia on a novel program in which the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) department partnered with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to advance communications interoperability between private and commercial wireless broadband networks and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks. Specifically, the Radio over Wireless Broadband (ROW-B) project was anchored on the District’s private Regional Wireless Broadband Network (RWBN), a 700 MHz wireless broadband network being piloted in the District. The RWBN is the only government owned and operated broadband network in the country and is based on the 1X-EVDO (Rev A) air interface technology currently used by Verizon and Sprint in their commercial cellular networks.
The ROW-B technology was designed to support voice interoperability between the RWBN and commercial broadband networks with the District LMR network via a Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) architecture. The advantages for the ROW-B solution for public safety would allow direct voice communications interoperability between users of District’s the RWBN and commercial cellular network users with the District’s LMR network. Future interoperable communication between public safety wireless broadband and LMR will provide enhanced mission critical voice communications capabilities between users of both network types. This will be particularly important when the future nation public safety wireless network is deployed and adopted by public safety.
Televate developed the concept for the ROW-B in partnership with OCTO, the DHS and with District first responder agencies. Televate crafted the grant investment justification and provided comprehensive technical and programmatic management for the program.
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