The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

“TOWARDS A BROADBAND FUTURE”The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG)

Tony GrayBoard Member, TETRA & Critical Communications Association

(TCCA)Chairman, TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group

(CCBG)

Regional Business DirectorP3 communications GmbH

TETRA & Critical Communications in Hungary6th Professional Mobile Communications Workshop

Budapest, April 2013

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

Taking the broadband

agenda forward

• The TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is working with other stakeholder groups worldwide to:– drive the standardisation of future common, global, mobile broadband

technology solutions for Critical Comms users.– lobby regulators etc. for appropriate - & as far as possible harmonised -

spectrum for deployment of future Critical Comms broadband networks.

• Thus the CCBG’s goals are to:– enable all Critical Comms users to access their information systems, apps.

etc. reliably & at broadband speeds on their professional mobile devices wherever they are & whenever they have the need.

– ensure that future Critical Comms broadband solutions meet the particular needs of Critical Comms users just as reliably as today’s voice & narrowband data services are delivered by current technologies (e.g. TETRA).

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

• Technology: can LTE infrastructures & services be made adequately reliable, resilient & available in practice for Critical Mobile use?– all things are possible with the application of sufficient resources…

• Spectrum: can regulators be persuaded to assign enough, & in suitable bands, for Critical Mobile BB services to be operated in?– thus far only in North America (700 MHz) & Australia (800 MHz)…

• Budgets: can administrations, politicians, funds-holders, etc. be convinced of the value of investment in Critical Mobile BB services?– hence will delivering such services prove financially & practically viable?

• Delivery: what are the available options & relative pro’s & con’s?– e.g. resource/service sharing with commercial operators, MVNO models,

etc?

Some key issues…

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

• CCBG participants include:– user organisations, governments, operators, standards & regulatory

bodies, equipment manufacturers & suppliers, consultants, etc.– all members & partner organisations of the TCCA are entitled to

participate

• The list of CCBG’s collaborative & cooperative relationships with other stakeholder groups globally is continually growing:– UIC (European railways)– E-UTC (European utilities)– PSC-E (European public safety)– NPSTC & NIST (USA)– CITIG & CATA (Canada)– APCO Global (e.g. Australasia)– and so on...

Stakeholder collaboration

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

CCBG participants

9%

7%

41%

5%

14%

2%

2%

3%

17%

ConsultantGovernmentIndustryObserverOperatorRegulatorResearchStandardsUser

Over 60 participating organisations10%

10%

10%

10%

60%

UtilityHealthTransportFirePolice

Representative rangeof user types

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

CCBG external relationships

TransportGroup

TechnicalForum

SFPG

Marketing GroupApplications

WGOUA

TCCA CCBG

SpectrumCoordination

PSC-E

RSCOMDG CONNECTLEWP of JHA Council

EuropeEU / EC

ResearchBodies

Political

FM 49

WG FMCEPT/ECC

Spectrum

APCO Global

e.g. Australasia

APCO

NPSTCNIST

CITIG

CATACSS

Canada USA

International

ETSI

3GPP

Standards

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

CCBG Management Group

CCBG WG SASystem Architecture

& Technical

CCBG SpectrumCoordinator

CCBG WG URUser & OperatorRequirements

CCBGSecretariat

Internal TCCA WG’s & external partners

liaison

CCBG structure

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

The Strategic Case

“WHY CMB?”“What’s the value?”

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

• Aimed at including support of fundamentally required features for critical comms applications in future standards releases, e.g. for:– Group working– Direct mode– Resilience & security– Speech as well as data services

Technology standardisation

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

WIDs!

3GPP Standards Progress

• ProSe & GCSE-LTE accepted as Work Item Descriptions (WIDs) included in 3GPP LTE R12

• The hard work has started...!

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

CCBG White Paper

• Information & guidelines for users, operators & others considering implementing mission critical mobile broadband services.

• Sets out predicted timeframe for availability of suitable standards & equipment.

• Outline roadmap for LTE as a technology evolution for TETRA & other existing mission critical systems.

• Download today at: www.tandcca.com/Library/Documents/CCBGMissionCriticalMobileBroadbandwhitepaper2013.pdf

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

A service evolution continuum

Learn

2

Non MissionCritical data

(commercial LTE)

Cloud - based Applications including Control Room Applications

applications, , Subscribers & group management, Group calls)

• Single sign-on services (security)• Communications services - including PMR/LMR applications• Subscriber & group management, group calls, etc.

Standardised services & applications (incl. control room)

Using commercial3G/4G carriers

43

Build

Mission CriticalData

(Private LTE)

Mission CriticalVoice

(Private LTE)

Migrate

Strategic: requires spectrum for private LTE

Upgrade

1

TETRA,P25, etc.

PMR/LMRnetworks

Mission Critical V+D servicesuntil LTE readiness & maturity

TIME / STAGE

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

– TETRA Today report

– Interview @ PMR Expo ’12, Cologne

– Telecoms.com interview

– ASTRID (Belgium) ‘SWITCH’ magazine interview (in French & Dutch!)

– 3GPP White Paper – ‘Public Safety’

– VIRVE (Finland) magazine interview

– Workshops & presentations at:

CCBG in the news & on show

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

Hungarian partners…Join & participate!

Work with us “Towards a Broadband Future”!

The Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) is a Working Group of the TETRA & Critical Communications Association (TCCA)

Tony GrayChairman, TCCA Critical Communications

Broadband Group

Regional Business DirectorP3 communications GmbHemail: tony.gray@p3-group.com

tel: +49 151 276 54501

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