Slide 1 GSC9/JOINT_005 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Public Safety and Disaster Relief Douglas Sward Phone:

Slide 2 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Status in GSC Resolution RAST 10/1 (2001) –Identifies public safety and disaster relief as a high interest subject Resolution GSC – 8/1 (2003) –Concludes that it is important for PSOs, authorities and/or organizations providing emergency services in countries across the world to continue to collaborate in the development of technical standards

Slide 3 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Resolution 646 (WRC-03) Public Protection and Disaster Relief Resolution 646 (WRC-03) considers that: –Many future applications will be wideband (indicative data rates in the order of kbit/s) and/or broadband (indicative data rates in the order of Mbit/s) –New technologies for wideband and broadband public protection and disaster relief applications are being developed in various standards organizations (for example, a joint standardizations programme between ETSI and TIA, know as Project MESA)

Slide 4 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Public Safety Requirements Future requirements for public safety communications will include: –wideband applications (eg. wireless transmission of large blocks of data, video) –broadband applications (eg. high-speed data, high quality digital real time video and multimedia) PS requirements include the need for lower cost of equipment, services and interoperability

Slide 5 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea The Interoperability Challenge Several key issue areas must be addressed before interoperability can become a reality GSC can help address one piece of the puzzle: standards Interoperability Spectrum Funding Standards and Technology Coordination and Partnerships

Slide 6 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Proposal Adopt a new GSC Resolution resolving to: –Encourage PSOs to develop standards for new terrestrial wireless digital wideband communications (voice and data) for public safety in the MHz band –Encourage agreement among SDOs and users on which standard is appropriate (based on existing commercial equipment or a new PS standard) for broadband communications in the MHz band