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PUBLIC SAFETYTHE BROADBAND ERA New private LTE networks are being introduced across the world to provide government, public safety and other critical users with dedicated high speed broadband data access. The benefits include the ability to search databases more quickly, collaborate more easily and access a new range of efficiency and safety enhancing applications. Critically, the improved quality of real-time intelligence, especially from streaming video, will enable you to anticipate, prepare for and respond to situations like never before.

Yet broadband isn’t always available where you need it. That’s why alongside these improvements there’s another advance that arguably, is as equally important as the availability of broadband data: the fact that public safety LTE (PS LTE) networks have become much more compact. So much so that private, secure and scalable PS LTE portable networks can be quickly set up on demand, or used continually, virtually anywhere. This can be done using systems on trailers, in vehicles, carried in backpacks and even in or attached to aerial vehicles. In fact, miniaturization has progressed to the point where PS LTE capability you can hold in the palm of your hand is being demonstrated as a concept today.

RETHINK PORTABLE LTE INFRASTRUCTURE PS LTE portable infrastructure (portables) such as systems on trailers has traditionally been used for temporary, emergency coverage for disasters and to provide short-term supplemental capacity in congested and remote areas. While these use cases still hold true, the new ecosystem of smaller infrastructure adds to those solutions and means that it’s time to rethink how coverage and capacity can be improved on a continuous basis. And, as your teams become more reliant on the rich and valuable information available over PS LTE, you will be able to provide network access much more easily than you did before – whether your people are going about their daily tasks, working a planned event or responding to a crisis.

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In this paper we look in more detail at when portables could be used. These options include forming and disbanding coverage or capacity at a moment’s notice that complements your existing fixed network or extends the coverage and capacity to support roaming where a network has either failed or does not exist.

What’s more, this new ecosystem of portables goes beyond assets held on standby and only used perhaps once a month or once a year, they are now highly mobile and are intended to deliver on demand and always on coverage and capacity on a daily basis. The result is better real-time access to information and ultimately better return on your investments.

Indeed, as we move into the broadband era of public safety communications the only limit to how we can offer the decision and safety improving power of PS LTE – wherever and whenever it is needed – will be the limit of the imagination.

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• Australia

• Brazil

• Canada

• China

• Malaysia

• Middle East

• Singapore

• South Korea

• Switzerland

• United Kingdom

• United States

DEDICATED LTE SYSTEMSEXPAND WORLDWIDE

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RESPONDING TO THE COVERAGE CHALLENGE

LTE PORTABLE INFRASTRUCTURE USE CASES

GAP COVERAGE

Motorola Solutions recommends running as much of your public safety and other critical traffic as possible over private PS LTE networks. One reason for this is that commercial networks are generally built to serve population densities, handle peak utilization times and optimize revenues. They do not necessarily provide the coverage, control and prioritization features or the reliability and security safeguards that public safety, governments or other critical users require.

2010Commercial Systems seriously degraded during the Haiti earthquake2

2005Hurricane Katrina knocks out 2,000 cell towers1

2012Hurricane Sandy takes down 25% of regions cell towers3

MULTI-AGENCY RESPONSE

That being said, due to budget constraints and lack of wide scale infrastructure in the near term, many agencies will have to provide LTE services using a combination of both commercial and private networks. So, any portables will need to be built around open 3GPP standards. These standards will ensure simple connectivity between portable and fixed infrastructure.

Crisis situations can swamp networks and disasters can strike with little or no notice. In the worst case, if you are reliant on services from a commercial partner, you may find that network access is denied as it becomes

swamped with too many users trying to access the network at the same time. Or, it may be damaged or destroyed. Without effective collaboration, information sharing and intelligence access, first responders’ decision-making and safety will be compromised. Portables give you the flexibility to immediately create dedicated coverage and capacity where it’s needed most.

In either case, portables allow broadband capabilities to be added without the need to wait for infrastructure build out, tower permits and the like, so that benefits can be immediately realized.

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Despite the unavoidable congestion and outright damage that can be caused to networks during major incidents, your people working in these extreme environments rightly expect every effort to be made to ensure that communications are available. Whether it’s a firefighter approaching a developing fire in the back of beyond, a police officer protecting fans at a college football game, or a paramedic attending to a marathon runner, when they request a video feed, search a database or call up a map, they need an instant response. In short, your people need PS LTE with them – always and everywhere.

To respond to this need, a new fleet of portables are becoming available. Highly mobile, easy to set up and compact, the systems can help you respond to specific events or unplanned crisis. And critically, they are also designed to be used daily as part of your normal operations to adjust to dynamically changing conditions and provide the coverage and capacity your people need.

BY 2050, THE MAJORITY OF U.S. COASTAL AREAS MAY SEE 30 OR MORE DAYS OF FLOODING EACH YEAR AS SEA LEVELS RISE6

For example, you may have capacity and coverage limits and you can use portables to easily address service quality issues to serve teams going about their daily operations. In addition, if you have major events, from parades, to marathons, to high profile sports venues and concerts, portables can be easily used to augment capacity and create private networks so your first responders always have the access to the information they need at a moments notice. This flexibility is increasingly important: The number of major events is growing exponentially – in 2014 alone there were 1,100 marathons in the U.S. and 1,200 major festivals9.

1,100 MARATHON RACES9

1,200 MAJOR FESTIVALS9

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As well as facing situations where networks have been knocked out, your teams may well be going into a situation where none exist:

• From a small handful of large fires in the late 1990s, the number of wildfires in the US covering more than 100,000 acres increased to 35 in 2013 – many in extremely remote areas7

COVERAGE AND CAPACITY FOR MAJOR EVENTS

With rising sea levels a growing threat, the number of coastal natural disasters is set to increase:

• By 2050, the majority of U.S. coastal areas may see 30 or more days of flooding each year as sea levels rise4

• The world’s 136 largest coastal cities are also at increased threat of flood from rising sea levels, with costs for damage predicted to rise to $1tn by 20505

GROWING THREATSFROM NATURE

BETWEEN 2011 AND 2014 MORE THAN 25,000,000 ACRES BURNED. EQUIVALENT TO THE SIZE OF LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI COMBINED8

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Portables have made great leaps in areas such as power consumption and component sizes. So much so that the Radio Access Network (RAN), Evolved Packet Core (EPC), and IP multimedia subsystem for delivering applications can be compressed into a form that will fit into a tactical case, backpack, and even, as recently demonstrated, attached to a drone.

This versatility in form factor means that network design needs to be seen in a new light. For instance, it’s possible to immediately create coverage anywhere; the first squad car or firefighting truck on the scene of an event can create a bubble of LTE coverage, augment coverage to assist with major events, and semi-permanent systems on wheels can be parked in urban centers to enhance capacity.

This ecosystem of portables changes the game from only having the cumbersome deployable systems of the past to adding new lightweight flexible systems. This means that always-on secure LTE bubbles can roam around your community in vehicles, through wearable devices and aerial platforms to provide pinpoint access exactly where and when you need it.

THE ERA OF FLEXIBLE PUBLIC SAFETY LTE Solutions including SOWs (Site on Wheels) and COWs (Cell on Wheels) have long been a feature of wireless networks. However, the new portable systems are far removed from the comparably cumbersome units of the past.

ULTRA PORTABLE LTEApprox. Weight 11 lbs

TRADITIONAL LTE

MICRO PORTABLE LTEApprox. Weight 1 lb

eNodeBApprox. Weight 400 lbs

Evolved Packet CoreApprox. Weight 300 lbs

IP Multimedia SubsystemApprox. Weight 80 lbs

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ECOSYSTEM OF PORTABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

TRAILER VEHICULAR BACKPACK AERIAL TACTICAL CASE

A FLEXIBLE LTE PORTABLE ECOSYSTEM WITH FAST AND EASY SETUP ENSURESCONTINUOUS OPERATIONS NO MATTER THE SITUATION

SYSTEM ON WHEELS (SOW)

Quickly deliver standalone broadband service with an entire PS LTE system on wheels, or easily add coverage and capacity when connected to fixed infrastructure.

CELL ON WHEELS (COW)

Easily add coverage and capacity with a cell site on wheels connected to PS LTE infrastructure via microwave, satellite, or fiber.

Turn any vehicle large or small into a mobile PS LTE network and project coverage for you and other public safety personnel.

Ensure PS LTE is always available, even in the most remote and rugged areas, with lightweight, transportable LTE you can carry in a backpack.

Provide a PS LTE bubble from the sky with aerial platforms ranging from balloons to drones and provide a bird’s-eye perspective of an incident scene with real-time video.

Bring the network with you in a portable, ruggedized case and create private PS LTE networks where and when you need them.

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WHERE ARE OUR EVENTS? You probably have more planned events and community activities than you first realize. Community activities, and locations, including sporting events, concerts, parades and tourist attractions, are all areas where you may have a fixed network available and simply need to add more capacity to meet peak demand. In this scenario, the addition of support from portables in the form of vehicular, backpack, tactical case, aerial and trailer networks can work together to ensure your people have uninterrupted access to applications, and important data with high quality of service.

WHERE ARE OUR PROBLEM COVERAGE AREAS?If your team is working in remote areas, perhaps tackling a fire, conducting a search and rescue, or responding to a plane crash, there is unlikely to be any coverage available. In this instance you will need to use PS LTE portables create a standalone network to throw an LTE coverage bubble over the site. Video and other real-time information can then be rapidly exchanged with the incident commander and between users.

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE COVERAGE IN OUR BUILT-UP AREAS? In urban areas, in-building and street-to-street coverage can be a challenge. And if you are facing a prolonged operation, such as a barricade situation in an apartment block, you may want to think about using systems to also enhance in-building performance. Strategically placed LTE portable solutions from tactical cases to trailers can be used for the duration of the event or as semi-permanent solutions, to improve day-to-day area coverage. You optimize your investment with the flexibility to re-deploy semi-permanent LTE portables in the case of extreme need such as a natural disaster or other major event in other areas of the community.

WHAT ECOSYSTEM DO WE HAVE? What options do you have in place to deploy PS LTE at a moment’s notice? Are your people always able to access the PS LTE network? Can you guarantee in-building coverage to support teams in a hostage situation? Can you provide coverage at a remote crash site? Are high quality services assured around major events? Can search and rescue teams take LTE with them on their missions? Assessing these questions will help you create the right mix of PS LTE portable assets to help your people be their best.

QUESTIONS TO ASKAcross your scope of operations you will have areas where portables can optimize communications available to users. To begin assessing your needs and identify the right portable solutions, questions to look at include:

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LTE ON DEMANDDiscussions about PS LTE usually focus around operational improvements to be gained from broadband speed. But an equally important advance are the improvements to network design, power consumption and radio performance. These mean that PS LTE can now be available with anywhere, anytime access through a new ecosystem of compact, portable systems. A range of modular, easily provisioned and connected PS LTE portables – from rapid response semi-permanent standalone networks, to small always on in-vehicle devices to agile systems in a backpack or drone – mean the network can be much more responsive to the needs of users. From creating a bubble of LTE coverage at a remote traffic accident, to ensuring uninterrupted services during a major concert, to protecting firefighters working in the wilds in the most demanding environment, the era of on demand PS LTE is here. It ensures that in the moments that matter your people always have access to the information they need to anticipate what they are facing and better safeguard themselves and the public. The systems are intuitive to install and are intended to be linked together to create flexible LTE coverage: from a COW at a major event that interfaces with your

WHY MOTOROLA SOLUTIONSWith a complete range of end-to-end public safety LTE solutions and services including portable systems, applications, purpose-built devices, and resilient large scale fixed and cloud networks, you have many scalable options to begin to enable the improved information access, collaboration and safety you need for a safer, thriving community.

Integration and managed services delivered to key performance indicators help keep operations running smoothly and if building, running and maintaining your own system is a challenge, our expertise accelerates build and offers a more cost-efficient alternative than seeking to build comparable capabilities in-house. Your people can focus fully on their missions without having to build and run a LTE network.

macro system, to a network in a disaster area connected to your core network over a satellite link. Lightweight personal area LTE networks promise to improve in-building coverage and ensure that incident commanders and on scene responders have the best quality of service available to make the right calls at the right time.

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