# Presentation: 530450

## 9-1-1 Network Survivability 

**9-1-1 Network Survivability **
**and Disaster Recovery**
**Feb 17, 2005**
- Roger Hixson
- NENA Technical Issues Director

**FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit**
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## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit

**CATEGORY 3- Public Health, Safety, and    **
**                                ****Maintenance of Law and Order**
** ****Minimum number of services necessary for giving**
**     ****civil alert, maintaining law and order and the health**
**     ****and safety of the U.S. population**
** **

**Notes:**
APCO’s Homeland Security Task Force has presented a series of symposia across the country and one of the key elements of the message is that for the security of our nation and the public safety communications system, service had to be as seamless and reliable as we could possibly build in....that means  
Diversity
Redundancy
Back up systems
Priority restoration
Priority provisioning

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority SummitApplicable Circuits for TSP

- Originating Switch

- Selective Routing Switch

- PSAP

- CAD

- Cell

- MPC

- ALI DB
- Servers

- SR DB
- Server

- DB System

-  EOC

- Radio Systems
-     NCIC, etc

- Admin Lines

- ( 9-1-1 InterTandem )

- ILEC
- CLEC
- MSC

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit Applicable for TSP treatment

**Message Circuits (EM)—CO to SR**
**Emergency Service Circuits (ES)—SR to PSAP**
**ALI Data Links – PSAP and ALI**
**PSAP to CAD links**
**Intertandem (if applicable)**

**Notes:**
Some network elements that public safety needs to consider when they are determining which critical infrastructure should be part of the TSP program...

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit Applicable for TSP treatment

**Administrative Lines **
**Radio Circuits**
**Wireless and Wireline interfaces**
**    ****Ex: Cell to MSC, MSC to MPC, MPC to ALI**
**EOC Facilities**
**Special Circuits & Other Critical Links**

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit Reasons for lack of implementation 

**TSP Costs**
**No cost for sponsorship – if procedures simple enough**
**Service Provider Tariff Costs – need for cost consistency**
**Decision on all or `representative’ circuits**
**Belief that TSP is not necessary**
**E9-1-1 and general service providers will `take care **
**   ****of critical public safety circuits’**
**But – if large scale outages, higher TSP level circuits will prevail**
**Consistent education of all parties needed**
**Belief that Public Safety can just order it done in cases of major catastrophes – ****but will be too late at that point**
**Lack of implementation coordination – ****need national project plan**

**Notes:**
As I participated in the APCO Homeland Security Symposiums on this topic, and as I talked with colleagues across the country, it became evident that many were not inclined to view the necessity for TSP in the same way that they Metropolitan 911 Board in Mpls and St. Paul had.

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit Key factors for implementation 

**TSP Costs**
**No cost for sponsorship – ****if procedures simple enough**
**Service Provider Tariff Costs – ****need for cost consistency**
**Decision**** on all or `representative’ circuits**
**Belief that TSP is not necessary**
**E9-1-1 and general service providers will `take care **
**   ****of critical public safety circuits’**
**But – if large scale outages, higher TSP level circuits will prevail**
**Consistent education of all parties needed**
**Belief that Public Safety can just order it done in cases of major catastrophes – ****but will be too late at that point**
**Lack of implementation coordination – ****need national project plan**

**Notes:**
As I participated in the APCO Homeland Security Symposiums on this topic, and as I talked with colleagues across the country, it became evident that many were not inclined to view the necessity for TSP in the same way that they Metropolitan 911 Board in Mpls and St. Paul had.

## FCC Telecommunications Service Priority Summit 

**Roger Hixson**
**Technical Issues Director**
**National Emegency Number Association (NENA)**
**614-442-9110**
**rhixson@nena.org**