NTIA Issues RFIs on FirstNet

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration has issued 10 requests for information (RFIs) from vendors and others on a couple of key options for creating FirstNet, a nationwide interoperable public safety network.

That is the network that will be paid for from the proceeds of the broadcast incentive auctions.

"These RFIs will enable FirstNet to gather input from equipment manufacturers, service providers and other stakeholders on possible models and partnership and technology platforms,' said FirstNet general manager Bill D'Agostino of the RFIs.

Those RFIs include antenna systems, microwave backhaul, satellite services, transmission and transport, data center services, network management and operations centers and a network service platform.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.