Nokia and SKT conduct major trials of LTE technologies ensuring public safety in a multi-vendor environment. The application of first responders in sharing mission-critical voice, video and other data simultaneously in real-time with multiple members of first response teams, will be trialled in South Korea. The experiment is being conducted with first responder teams to enhance communications and response time in emergency situations.
Working with local vendors to deliver services for the trial, Nokia is deploying its Mission-Critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) technology to allow a single user to simultaneously connect with multiple first response personnel on a network. Using enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast technology, HD-video and other data can be transmitted efficiently to all devices even in high-traffic situations, to give all first responders a clear and complete view of an emergency and its needs.
The trial consists one of the world's first public safety networks to inter-work with SKT's existing evolved packet core system. This inter-working will promise network reliability, coverage and availability, ensuring public safety workers can communicate at all times.
Senior Vice President of Infra Business at SK Telecom, Sang-soo Shim, said: "We are pleased to be leading the way with this important Public Safety LTE trial. Working with Nokia we have been able to ensure fast deployment of technologies and enable the delivery of services that will transform the way public safety workers operate."
Head of Korea at Nokia, Andrew Cope, said: "This trial with SKT is a breakthrough for Nokia in the South Korean market. Using our innovative ViTrust public safety LTE solutions and field proven Nokia Cloud Packet Core solution we could rapidly deploy the network, to inter-work with SKT's existing network and evolved packet core."