Reduced costs, increased productivity, and enhanced public safety through a city-wide, multi-agency government network (MAGNet)

Governments at the stale and local levels are faced with the quandry of needing to enhance their public safety communications, support mission-critical applications and provide employees with real-time access to information, yet staying within the limits of mandated budgets.

What if a city could save significant money that is currently being paid to other telecommunications providers to backhaul traffic lights and give access to existing city workers, increase the productivity of workers from agencies across the city, and use these savings to deliver a next generation public safety wireless network that can provide the level of secure voice, data, and video communications that would significantly improve police, fire, and other first responders ability to keep citizens safe?

IPWireless' mobile broadband solutions have a unique set of characteristics to help state and local governments solve this quandary. Our solutions are now being used in a major mobile infrastructure initiative by one of the world's biggest and visible cities, New York City, and will also be used in planned initiatives of municipalities of all sizes. While many of these cities have looked at using solutions like mesh Wi-Fi or WiMAX, with IPWireless, they are able to make the economics work,  deploy a network now using existing spectrum, such as 700 MHz, and support a broad array of applications. Multi-agency government networks (MAGNets) from IPWireless enable government agencies to save money on short term projects, and then use those savings to fund longer term priorities. Our mobile broadband solutions deliver extraordinary performance, the utmost security, the ability to prioritise data traffic and support essential bandwith intensive video surveillance applications.

Learn how Gillette, WY deployed a multi-agency government network. Download the Gillette, WY Customer Profile

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The 3GPP, TD-CDMA Advantage

IPWireless' 3G mobile broadband solutions, which are based on the 3GPP UMTS TD-CDMA standard, provide the government sector with key advantages over alternative broadband technologies such as WiFi or WiMAX.TD-CDMA, which is based on 3GPP , the world's leading wireless standard, enhances network performance, provides a seamless upgrade path to LTE and improves the economics of providing wireless broadband services by:

  • Working in a broad range of spectrum, both standard and non-standard. Frequency bands supported include: 450, 700, 872,1900, 2010, 2053, 2300, and 2500.
  • Devices support and work across the entire 700MHz band, including the lower A, B and C bands and the D-Block for Public Safey
  • Requiring only one radio 5MHz or 10MHz channel for the entire network and delivering N=3 performance in an N=1 deployment
  • Supporting state-of-the art intercell inteference cancellation that eliminates interference from other users and other sectors to improve performance where it is needed most
  • Ensuring investment protection. IPWireless's LTE Evolution Platform provides a seamless path from Release 7 TD-CDMA to Release 8 LTE
  • Providing exceptional mobile broadband network coverage in a range of environments including:
    • indoors - good first wall penetration in most buildings
    • Nomadic use
    • high speed, mobile vehicles - speeds over 100mph.
  • Simulataneously supporting a large number of active users and authenticated users for applications like traffic lights,water metering, utility monitoring, and bio sensors.
  • Prioritizing applications and user traffic for optimal performance - a key requirement for public safety networks. For example first reponder agencies such as police, fire services and emergency medical personnel  can receive priority to the network over other less time-sensitive data traffic.
  • Delivering reslience and stability required to withstand network overload conditions.

Commercially Proven

New York City's Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (NYC DoITT) is taking a major step into the 21st century as it unveils a new, state-of-the-art city-wide, multi-agency wireless network based on IPWireless' 3GPP TD-CDMA mobile broadband technology. This  dedicated wireless broadband network represents an industry breakthrough in mission-critical municipal deployments, and is purpose-built to support the nation's first wireless e-Government architecture. Capable of supporting the widest possible range of applications, the network delivers new levels of responsiveness, efficiency, and cost-containment for both emergency and non-emergency municipal services.

Northrop Grumman, IPWireless' partner,  is the prime systems integrator responsible for design, deployment and on-going operation of NYCWiN on behalf of DoITT. The network has been deployed across all 5 boroughs, covering more than 90% of the city, and supports 19 different agencies and 53 different applications. Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the power outages in the summer of 2003, there was increased urgency to update and improve the mobile data service capabilities of first responders and other city-wide agency communications. Neither commercial wireless data services or public wi-fi networks were suitable for the mission critical needs of the city. After a rigorous review process, NYC DoITT selected IPWireless TD-CDMA technology for its ability to:

  • work in licensed spectrum - good propagation, 10MHz TDD
  • 3G standards approach -  field proven, future proof upgrade path to R7 and R8 3GPP standards
  • powerful interference cancellation technology (IIM)
  • deliver resilience and stability required to withstand overloaded network conditions
  • prioritization of traffic based on tier of service, user or application.

Learn More

To learn more about the NYC WiN project and benefits to the city Download the NYCWiN Customer Profile.