Integrate Your Command
NG911 is ushering in a new era of public safety dispatch capabilities and concepts. It will require a whole new way to viewing current problems and a whole new suite of solutions. These innovations will explode the amount of information at your fingertips for responding to a public safety incident. Whether it is a large scale fire, a terrorist threat, or a downed power line, having a dispatch platform that can tie into all of the available information is necessary to resolve the problem quickly, effectively and as safely as possible.
Information availability depends on your level of integration with the connected world and the world is connected with IP Technologies. By putting as many of your current 
technologies onto an IP platform, you make your operations as flexible and as easily accessible as you need them to be. IP is quickly becoming a universal language for information exchange and it is the driving force behind NG911. Fortunately, P25 voice radio technology is already using IP standards and can integrate very easily with a NG911 platform. CAD and Records management applications are also becoming more and more IP based for the flexibility and scalability that IP offers.
As a commander or public safety responder, having a dispatch center and an in-field command center that can tap into all of these IP applications might be the difference between life and death for responders on scene.
IP capable dispatch and 911 solutions are on the market and available today. Bringing your radio dispatch, 911 and CAD/Records systems onto an IP standard will give them the potential to seamlessly share critical information not only today, but well into the next generation.
