Digital Television Datacasting for Public Safety

Enhancing Public Safety Communications by

Leveraging Existing Public Television Spectrum

Datacasting Presentation 11/17/2017

Demand for Data Growing• Public safety communication requirements are

rapidly expanding beyond LMR

• Video and computer data requirements growing

• The number of devices per officer increasing

• Existing wireless networks, including FirstNet,

expanding to meet demand

• Rural coverage and urban congestion remain a

concern

• DHS Report on public safety datacasting in Houston

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Public Television is Resilient and Reliable

• Covers 96% of the US population

• Including territories

• Equipped with backup generators

• Supported 24/7 by professional engineers

• Maintain almost 100% uptime

• Even during disasters and extended power outages*

• Public television can also offer the fiber, microwave, satellite and high speed

Internet backbones they use to move high value content with no additional

investment in infrastructure

• Facilities are secure - most require keycard access to servers and infrastructure

• Stations operate on licensed spectrum, not accessible or corruptible by the public

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Pennsylvania Public Television

Public Television DTV Nationwide Coverage

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Plus AK, HI and

all 6 Territories

Houston PD

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• DHS Exercise

• Republican debate

• Final Four

• Flooding surveillance

• Helicopter video

• Marathon

• Super Bowl

• Harvey

Interoperable, Secure Content

Distribution Over DTV - How it Works

Situational awareness

Other

dispatch

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DTV Studio

TV

transmit

tower

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Datacasting Enhances FirstNet

• Fail-safe communications during emergencies

• Congestion relief

• Rural coverage

• Interoperability

• New licensed spectrum

• Optimized for data

• Existing towers, backhaul

• One-to-many content delivery

• Bandwidth can increase during emergencies

• Two-way when operating in an ecosystem with other networks

• Leverages investment in public television

• Datacasting offers an existing, operational network, reducing infrastructure costs

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Receive and Station Equipment

USB receiver Dongle

Linux Appliance Receiver

TV Station EquipmentAntennas

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Future

FirstNet

Device

Next Generation Broadcast Standard

• Mobile reception on phones and tablets

• Built-in hooks for LTE and Internet integration

• Hybrid broadcast/broadband services

• HTML 5

• More efficient spectrum usage

• Higher power, denser signals

• Deeper building penetration

• Single Frequency Networks

• Advanced public alerting

• Native IP transport

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Broadcast TV is undergoing a major technology transformation

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Questions?

Thank You

Mark O’Brien

SpectraRep

703-802-2975 Office

703-625-6462 Cell

mobrien@spectrarep.com