Events

Wednesday 10 June 2020 - 16:15 - 17:15 CEST

Presented by:

Dr Fidel Liberal, Coordinator of MCS TaaSting project, University of the Basque Country
Michael Proestler, founder and CEO, GridGears

A lack of certification programs for critical broadband has allowed the misuse of the MCPTT/MCData/MCVideo terms with vendors making ambiguous claims such as ‘3GPP aligned’, ‘MCPTT ready/capable/forward-compatible’ and so on, thus jeopardising customer confidence.

The innovative Mission Critical Services Testing-as-a-Service approach (MCS-TaaSting) aims to fulfil the specific needs of the mission critical community in terms of flexible conformance testing.

It will allow the industry to prove the 3GPP standards-compliance of their implementations and will give users and operators the confidence to buy compliant products.

This webinar is for vendors, users, operators, test houses – for anyone in the critical communications ecosystem looking for future proof and interoperable implementations of mission critical services.

The MCS-TaaSting project is led by the Networking, Quality and Security (NQaS) research group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), supported by leading organisations in critical communications; industry associations and testing experts including ENENSYS Technologies, GridGears, Nemergent Solutions, PSTA, Sonim, TCCA and Texas A&M University.

The MCS-TaaSting project work is funded by the financial assistance award 70NANB20H005 from the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Wednesday 24 June 2020 - 0900 - 1000 (BST)

Presented by:

• Brian Murgatroyd, Chair, ETSI Technical Committee TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution (TC-TCCE)
• David Chater-Lea, Vice Chair, ETSI Technical Committee TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution (TC-TCCE)
• 'Jeppe' Jepsen, TCCA Vice Chair, Board member and Director

Since the first networks were implemented more than 20 years ago, TETRA has become the critical communications technology of choice around the world.

While critical broadband systems are emerging, they will only provide a partial solution for many years to come, and TETRA will still be required to provide very high resilience secure voice and short data functionality.

ETSI’s Technical Committee TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution (TC-TCCE) is responsible for the TETRA standard and is developing key interworking standards to allow critical broadband and TETRA terminals to be used across both types of network.

The TETRA standard itself continues to be improved and maintained, including the specification of new encryption algorithms to ensure TETRA is secure for the next 15-20 years in the face of increasing cybercrime.

This webinar will cover:

• TETRA market overview
• Ongoing development of the TETRA standard
• The importance of TCCA’s IOP process as the foundation of TETRA’s success
• TETRA and critical broadband – the process/requirements for interworking
• Security enhancements for the TETRA standard
• Performance improvements for data delivery over TETRA