TCCA drives new initiative for 3GPP mission critical interoperability testing and certification
First step towards formation of new Interest Group to ensure cost-effective and efficient process for manufacturers
06 July 2018: As 3GPP specified mission critical (MC) features start to mature and manufacturers begin to implement the standards in their products, vendors, operators and users alike are looking at how best and most efficiently to test and certify standards conformance and interoperability for MC devices and systems.
The most cost effective testing and certification of MC clients and devices is of critical importance as it will lower the overall cost of solutions for operators and end-users.
Led by Harald Ludwig, Chair of TCCA’s Technical Forum, TCCA hosted an initial meeting of device manufacturers, application developers, mobile network operators (MNOs) and user agency representatives to share information and ideas regarding testing and certification of future MC broadband products. The meeting was held at the second ETSI MCPTT Plugtests™, hosted by Texas A&M University’s Disaster City facility in College Station, Texas.
Current approaches applicable to consumer devices and products were considered to see how such regimes might be most cost efficiently and effectively applied to the significantly smaller, but very important, MC market.
The need for global collaboration and information sharing between all interested parties, most especially between non-competing MNOs entering the MC market, was stressed at the meeting as being a basis upon which a robust testing and certification regime could be achieved for MC products.
Further meetings are intended with the aim of creating a formal Interest Group to continue the dialogue and collaborate on delivery of an acceptable solution for the benefit of all stakeholders in the MC community worldwide.
For background on the ETSI Plugtests, conformance, certification and interoperability please read this article.
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TCCA represents all standard mobile critical communications technologies and complementary applications. Our Members are drawn from end users, operators and industry across the globe. We believe in and promote the principle of open and competitive markets worldwide through the use of open standards and harmonised spectrum. We drive the development of common global mobile standards for critical broadband and maintain and enhance the TETRA Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) standard. TCCA is a 3GPP Market Representation Partner and a member of the Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) project. Our Members actively contribute in 3GPP working groups. To find out more, please visit www.tcca.info and follow us @TCCAcritcomms
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