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Capturing the Promise

Public Safety Drives the Multi-Service Open Access Cambria County, PA Network and Social Inclusion Initiative

The Dilemma Facing Cambria County

• Upgrade public safety communications

• Increase situational awareness for first responders

Process

• DHS / FEMA

• Too good to be true

• Investigate operational network (AllCoNet)

• Expand the project scope

• Funding

Challenges (or why this should never have happened)

• PA State Law (HB 30,now Pa.C.S.A.3014)

• Commonwealth form of government

• Credit worthiness

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Cambria Multi Service Business Model

Schools and libraries

Government

Public Safety

Business Parks

1. Population centers

2. Service Customers

3. CONXX Architecture

Towers

Backbone

CoverageWi-Fi

4. Edge Applications

AMR, SCADA, Security Cameras

Backbone Transportusing Fiber and/or

Licensed Microwave

How do you layer in the Public Safety network?

Interoperability Server(ACU 1000 / Voiceboard)

Baseband Radios(UFH, VHF, Trunked P25)

Traditional services (TDM T1, DS3, OCn)

Fiber to the Premise

900 Mhz license exempt GFSK mobile radio

w/ Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Environmental Controls

Security

Management

Power Backup

UHFVHFTNK

Multi-Service Network

Economic Development

Education

Government

Public Safety

Social Inclusion (Digital Divide)

Thank you

Brian FeistExecutive DirectorCambria County Dept of Emergency Servicesbfeist@co.cambria.pa.us (814) 472-2525 office

Additional Slides

Multi Service Architecture Creates the “Rich Edge”

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Public Safety Critical Success Factor (CSFA)

• Situational Awareness • Deployability• Adaptability• Usability • Controllability

Management Framework, NMS/OSS You cannot manage what you cannot see

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