FirstNet官员昨天宣布，FirstNet创新和测试实验室科罗拉多州博尔德的技术总部开放，设备和其他解决方案部署到全国公共安全宽带网络之前，可以那里进行测试和评估
. FirstNet副董事长杰夫约翰逊表示，此类测试是FirstNet与典型商业网络之间的主要区别
. 布拉彻说，FirstNet实验室是预算内提前建成的。他说，FirstNet董事会今年早些时候批准了Boulder设施的长期租约
FirstNet官员昨天宣布，FirstNet创新和测试实验室科罗拉多州博尔德的技术总部开放，设备和其他解决方案部署到全国公共安全宽带网络之前，可以那里进行测试和评估
FirstNet副董事长杰夫?约翰逊（Jeff Johnson）表示，此类测试是FirstNet与典型商业网络之间的主要区别
“女士们，先生们，这不是一个普通的商业网络，”约翰逊实验室开幕剪彩活动中说>“这就是为什么我们国会山游行时说，‘我们必须有一个专门的、关键任务的网络’，因为我们所拥有的还不够好。它必须是任务关键型的，必须是可靠的，必须有针对公共安全的应用程序，并围绕公共安全构建，它必须这样一个实验室中得到验证，这不是猜测，不是为我14岁的女儿建造的。它必须为公共安全专业人士建造，这就是我们这里做的。我们来这里是为了公共安全。”
FirstNet首席执行官迈克·波思（Mike Poth）对此表示赞同
“我们是占领实验室的人，但这是公共安全实验室，”波思活动中说。“这就是我们这里和我们存的原因。这是FirstNet的下一个激动人心的里程碑，它将为公共安全实现这一目标。”
Poth还宣布，FirstNet董事会成员尼尔·考克斯（Neil Cox）将接替Barry Boniface，后者将于本月底离开FirstNet，担任FirstNet董事会技术委员会主席
考克斯芝加哥帮助建立了第一个蜂窝网络，他出席了实验室开放活动，并讨论了各种类型的第一响应者可以利用FirstNet系统的一些可能方法
考克斯说：“你将看到一些应用程序即将问世，这些应用程序将为急救人员开发，这些应用程序将使我们的生活更加安全和美好。”
FirstNet首席技术官Jeff Bratcher描述了将新设施中进行的工作类型，该设施已配备有设备，以验证First Net的全国承包商拟使用的设备和解决方案
Bratcher说：“FirstNet的员工都明白，当急救人员灾难和紧急情况下奋力救援时，他们需要经过测试并证明有效的通信工具。”。“这就是我们创建FirstNet创新和测试实验室的原因。这是为了确保急救人员拥有他们保护和服务社区所需的创新、有效、可靠的技术
“我们将重点测试那些关键的功能，如服务质量、优先级和抢占权，这些功能是这个网络的关键区别，以确保为第一响应者提供他们长期以来所要求的关键服务和功能。”
布拉彻说，FirstNet实验室是预算内提前建成的。他说，FirstNet董事会今年早些时候批准了Boulder设施的长期租约
FirstNet officials yesterday announced the opening of the FirstNet Innovation and Test Lab at the organization’s technical headquarters in Boulder, Colo., where equipment and other solutions can be tested and evaluated before being deployed on the nationwide public-safety broadband network.
Such testing is a major differentiation between FirstNet and a typical commercial network, according to FirstNet Vice Chairman Jeff Johnson.
“This is no average commercial network, ladies and gentlemen,” Johnson said during a ribbon-cutting event to open the lab, which can be viewed online. “We can buy that on the street. But it wasn’t good enough for public safety.
“That’s why we marched on Capitol Hill and said, ‘We’ve got to have a dedicated, mission-critical network,’ because what we have isn’t good enough. It’s got to be mission critical, it’s got to be reliable, it’s got to have applications aimed at public safety and built around public safety, and it has to be proven in a lab like this—not guessed at, not built for my 14-year-old daughter. It has to be built for the public-safety professional, and that’s what we’re doing here. We’re here for public safety.”
FirstNet CEO Mike Poth echoed this sentiment.
“We’re the ones occupying the lab, but this is public safety’s lab,” Poth said during the event. “This is why we’re here and why we exist. This is the next exciting milestone of what FirstNet is all about—to make this happen for public safety.”
Poth also announced that FirstNet board member Neil Cox will replace Barry Boniface—a board member who will be leaving FirstNet at the end of the month—as the chairman for the FirstNet board’s Technology Committee.
Cox, who helped build the first cellular network in Chicago, attended the lab-opening event and discussed some of the possible ways that various types of first responders could leverage the FirstNet system.
“You’re going to see applications that are going to come out and be developed for first responders that will make all of our lives safer and better,” Cox said.
FirstNet Chief Technology Officer Jeff Bratcher described the type of work that will be conducted in the new facility, which already is equipped to validate gear and solutions proposed for use by First Net’s nationwide contractor.
“The FirstNet staff all understand that, when first responders are racing to help in disasters and emergencies, they need the communications tools that are tested and proven to work,” Bratcher said. “That’s why we’ve created the FirstNet Innovation and Test Lab. It’s to ensure first responders possess the innovative, effective, reliable technology that they need to protect and serve our communities.
“We’re going to be focusing on testing those mission-critical features, such as quality of service, priority and preemption, which are the key differentiators for this network to ensure the delivery of those critical services and features for first responders that they’ve long asked for.”
Bratcher said the FirstNet laboratory was built ahead of schedule and under budget. FirstNet’s board approved a long-term lease for the Boulder facility earlier this year, he said. |
