Coordination Called Key to Creating Interoperable First-Responder Network

摘要

The challenge in creating FirstNet comes down to communications and coordination, utilityncompany executives, public-safety representatives and government officials said at a UtilitiesnTelecom Council workshop. Chris Essid, the director of the Homeland Security Department’snOffice of Emergency Communications, said developing an interoperable broadband network isn20 percent technical and 80 percent cooperation. “It’s that coordination that needs tonimprove,” he said.