3GPP Market Partner TCCA have today launched a white paper on how public safety agencies and operators can successfully deploy video services supporting mission-critical operations, especially where the scale of its usage is considered ‘massive’.
TCCA have also scheduled a webinar on the same topic: Guidance for the successful usage of Massive Mission Critical Video, for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 14.00 GMT
The term ‘massive MC video’ describes situations where the amount of video could potentially saturate network resources, if not appropriately managed. The overall objective is to ensure that first responders and public safety agencies (and by implication other critical communication sectors) can use video effectively and for operational benefit.
Video is one of the most promising and versatile technologies for improving operational efficiency and effectiveness for first responders. Video is now widely considered as a significant capability to improve safety, coordination, collaboration, and quality decision-making, particularly during high stakes, end-user operational scenarios.
Identifying the key questions and challenges posed by mass use of video was achieved by surveying representatives from government agencies and the critical communications industry. The most frequent key challenges related to;
- being able to set priorities and maintain control over the video flows,
- ensuring seamless communications across different systems, and
- avoiding network flooding due to excessive video traffic.
Key use cases representing different categories of operations are documented, i.e. day-to-day routine operations, pre-planned events, and major incidents. When analysing these use cases, identifying video producers and consumers is fundamental to understanding the overall problem domain, and those identified include actors such as first responders, officers, dispatchers, operators, government agencies, and other stakeholders.
Using video requires some forward planning and appropriate design of the network platforms to be used, especially in the case of massive video use situations. The white paper provides a set of recommendations intended for public safety agencies, network operators and solution providers/developers. It provides initial guidance for the successful use of massive mission-critical video, ensuring solutions can meet mission-critical operational needs.
(Text taken from the TCCA Press Release, January 7, 2025)
About TCCA
TCCA supports all standard mobile critical communications technologies and complementary applications.
Members are drawn from end users, operators and industry across the globe. They promote the principle of open and competitive markets worldwide through the use of open standards and harmonised spectrum.
TCCA drives the development of common global mobile standards for critical broadband and maintain and enhance the TETRA Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) standard.
TCCA is a 3GPP Market Representation Partner for critical communications and TCCA members actively contribute in 3GPP working groups. TCCA supports the ETSI MCX Plugtests™, and is a member of the MCS-TaaSting project.
To find out more, please visit https://www.tcca.info/ and https://www.critical-communications- world.com/
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