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Madison Square Garden deploys
Motorola radios
The Madison Square Garden Company
will use MOTOTRBO professional
two-way radios at its properties across
the country. Beginning this month, a total of
1,100 of the Motorola Solutions radios will
be deployed across Madison Square Garden,
Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Th eatre and
Hulu Th eater in New York, Th e Forum in Los
Angeles and the Chicago Th eatre in Chicago.
At MSG properties, the MOTOTRBO pushto
talk digital radios will be used for discreet
and seamless communication between facilities,
hospitality and security staff , who work closely
in the set-up and production of major events.
Th e delivery and integration of the radios
and related equipment will be managed by
PMC Wireless.
“Communication and organisation are
imperative for putting on successful events
at each of our venues,” said Ron Skotarczak,
executive vice-president, marketing partnerships
at Th e Madison Square Garden Company. “Our
partnership with Motorola Solutions will only
benefi t our operations and improve the guest
experience at all our venues.”
MOTOTRBO radios are part of
Motorola Solutions’ end-to-end enterprise
communications suite, which helps commercial
customers manage disparate technologies and
systems. Solutions include two-way radios and
broadband devices, robust video security and
analytics, dynamic incident management and
dispatch software, private LTE (CBRS) and
managed and support services.
TCCA joins compliance testing project
TCCA has joined a project to create
compliance testing for mission critical
implementations.
In recent years, 3GPP has standardised
mission-critical features, yet test
equipment manufacturers have not
implemented mission-critical test cases
on their machines. Features that have
been standardised include mission-critical
push-to-talk (MCPTT), mission-critical
data (MCData) and mission-critical
video (MCVideo).
3GPP has accepted a change in the
approach for mission-critical test cases in
response to the gap between standards
and testing.
MCS-TaaSting, or mission-critical
services testing as a service, aims to fulfi l
the specifi c needs of the mission-critical
communications community in terms of
compliance testing.
An IP-based test simulator will be
developed that can be used for the
compliance testing of the mission-critical
implementations.
The project is being led by Dr Fidel
Liberal of the University of the Basque
Country, with TCCA, the Public Safety
Technology Alliance (PSTA) and Texas
A&M University acting as vendor
associations and practitioners. The
University of the Basque Country will
contribute as a mission-critical services
expert, alongside Sonim Technologies
and Nemergent Solutions. GridGears
and TestTree are also participating as
testing vendors.
The test set-up will use the TTCN3
code of the 3GPP RAN5 test cases and
execute them on an IP-based simulator,
which will be made available via a
cloud service (the TaaS platform) to any
interested testing party.
In addition to the cloud- and IP-based
simulator there will also be a possibility
to test the mission-critical relevant parts
of the LTE radio access. That includes
mission-critical QCI bearers, eMBMS and
priority and pre-emption.
The requirements of mission-critical
users and operators are diff erent from
the requirements for consumer device
compliance testing, yet some learnings
can be taken from those tests. As such,
the MCS-TaaSting project will look to
build on existing conformance tests from
PTCRB and GCF.
The entire set-up will be tested in a test
lab environment to check the simulator,
the test cases and the processes.
When fi nalised, the MCS-TaaSting
approach should allow cost-effi cient
regular and frequent testing, re-testing,
certifi cation and re-certifi cation of the
myriad and increasing combinations of
devices, operating systems, middleware
and applications.
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