While much of the original work on NG911 has been carried out at Columbia, major development work is underway also at and near Texas A & M. Next phases of the project, according to material on the project's Web site would involve establishing an IP-based 911 workstation in Brazos County, Texas, as well as in the city of College Station, Texas. The demonstration project there would utilize public safety answering points (PSAPs) connected at the Texas university. One PSAP has a 155 million bits per second capacity, the other 10 million Mbps. Another test prototype is planned to get underway in the State of Virginia under the auspices of the University of Virginia.
Companies participating in NG911 include Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks. In addition to providing Cisco software and hardware to the project, Cisco will provide access to an emergency 911 gateway solution as well as giving source code to help Columbia researchers add location information to a DHCP server. Nortel will provide a SIP switching platform. Internet2, which provides networking expertise to many universities, is also involved in the project.
Also playing a key role in the NG911 Project is the National Emergency Numbering Association (NENA), which coordinates emergency communications on a national level.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
