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Starhome Participates in Public-Safety Roaming Test Bed (3/2/10)
Starhome, a provider of roaming services for mobile network operators, is participating in the CELTIC Federated Test bed for Public-Safety Communications (FT-PSC) consortium. The project is focused on public safety and disaster management and includes developing communications among national operators during emergency situations.
The FT-PSC project is addressing the lack of existing public-safety communications and information systems interoperability and the effect it has on response times during emergency situations. Establishing direct roaming relations among national operators is problematic, as competitive operators don’t have bilateral roaming relations. However, in an emergency, if one network crashes or doesn’t have coverage in specific area, other networks should provide backup. The Starhome Roaming Broker solution for new-generation networks will be developed in the project as an alternative to bilateral operator roaming agreements.
CELTIC is a European research and development (R&D) program that initiates and runs privately and publicly funded information and communication technology (ICT)/telecommunications R&D projects. The FT-PSC project will allow European telecom manufacturers and software providers to carry out tests and evaluation of their products, results of R&D projects in international environments with participation of public-safety users. The test bed will test large-scale heterogeneous communications systems including the heterogeneous networks simultaneously based on several standards such as GPRS, UMTS, wireless LAN (WLAN), WiMAX, TETRA, Tetrapol and Project 25 (P25). The TETRA Association and other interested organizations are participating as well.
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