Huawei and IHS Announce Whitepaper to Advance LTE in Public Safety
Huawei today announced that it partnered with IHS, a leading global analysis firm in the critical communications industry, to develop a whitepaper entitled “LTE in Public Safety”.
Released at the 4th eLTE Industry Alliance Summit held on May 30 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the whitepaper outlines customer challenges in the public safety sector and private LTE network development trends, as well as recommendations for the deployment of LTE-based public safety networks.
According to the whitepaper the global public safety sector is undergoing substantial transformation. Public sector agencies are looking to develop nationwide critical communications private networks to enhance their capabilities, such as enabling police departments to adopt visual command to predict and respond quickly to incidents.
Visual dispatching within the public safety sector requires significant bandwidth. Current narrowband technologies, including analog and digital, are unable to support this demand. Therefore, the public safety sector has begun to develop private LTE broadband networks which integrate voice, data and video services to meet the demand for public safety applications. Driven by this trend, some vendors have already rolled out private LTE network communications solutions designed for the public safety sector, indicating the importance of LTE broadband networks to enable critical communications in the future.
The whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis on private LTE networks in the public safety sector including market scale, technology development trends, standards development, spectrum planning in major global regions, and the influence of industry organizations. Based on this in-depth analysis, the whitepaper also provides practical recommendations on network deployment policies, industry chain development and market growth.
Thomas Lynch, co-author of the whitepaper and Director of IHS Critical Communications Group, commented: “Private LTE networks have been growing rapidly in recent years. The market scale of private LTE networks in the public safety sector reached over USD 539 million in 2015. IHS forecasts that the market scale of private LTE eNodeB in the sector will reach USD 1.3 billion by 2019. IHS’ long-term forecast data shows that the growth rate of private LTE networks will be even higher. Private LTE network systems are expected to be adopted by more than one million users by 2021.”
Jianhua Peng, President of Enterprise Wireless Business Unit at Huawei, said: "Based on our extensive experience of wireless technology and in-depth understanding of the industry, Huawei introduced its market-leading eLTE broadband trunking solution to bring trunking networks into the 21st century. By the end of Q1 2016, Huawei had signed 180 eLTE network contracts and established 84 commercial eLTE networks across different sectors, such as public safety, transportation, and energy. Our eLTE broadband trunking solution has been deployed for a number of projects, including Nanjing e-Government network, Shanghai Police, Kenya police station, Zhengzhou metro, Light Rail in Addis Ababa (capital city of Ethiopia), to enhance the reliability, cost effectiveness and flexibility of their networks."
