ATIS Committee Meets with Public Safety Bureau on Network Resiliency
The ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) supported industry best practices and opposed new rules in response to a June FCC Public Safety Bureau notice seeking comment on network resilience during and after the 2017 hurricanes. NSRC said it formed…
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a Situational Awareness for 9-1-1 Outages Task Force, which has identified "areas for future work and is developing a set of requirements,” the ATIS committee said. “The group is focusing on the possible development of a [public safety answering point] database and a standardized process for updating the information in the database.” On backhaul, the NRSC suggested “industry examine resiliency-related best practices to see if gaps exist vis-à-vis backhaul providers.” NSRC members met with Public Safety Bureau staff, said a filing in docket 11-60.