Omdia Crit Comms Circle

We have another post-event episode for you where we cover the highlights from IWCE in Las Vegas, including interoperability, MCPTT, spectrum, and more!

We're joined once more by Ildefonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst at Omdia, and Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst with Critical Communications Insights.

If you have questions for either, or would like to contact them, their respective LinkedIn’s can be found here:
Ildefonso de la Cruz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ildefonsodelacruz/
Ken Rehbehn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-rehbehn/

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In this episode we gather to share some of our highlights from both the conference sessions and the exhibition floor of BAPCO 2022.

We're joined once more by Ildefonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst at Omdia, and Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst with Critical Communications Insights.

Some of the highlights we cover include ESN, Tait, Handsfree, Regola and NEC.

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We talk with Motorola Solutions' Jehan Wickramasuriya about leveraging machine learning for mission critical artificial intelligence. We talk about defining artificial intelligence, the role it has within critical communications, and why mission critical AI is special.

Jehan is the Vice President for AI, Data and User Experience at Motorola Solutions. He is responsible for Motorola Solutions Artificial Intelligence and systems, UX research and design teams, and has product responsibility for the public safety data platform and common services teams, which includes product responsibility for aspects of the CommandCentral platform.

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In this episode we talk MNOs in public safety, and how the movement towards mission critical broadband is playing out from a market perspective, how it's changing the nature of the trade shows that this industry has come to know well through the years, and in particular how the IWCE organisation is responding o these market changes.

We're joined by three guests to cover these areas, including:
- Alfonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst leading the critical communications broadband market research here at Omdia
- Stephanie McCall, Director of Sales at IWCE, IWCE's Urgent Communications and American City & County
- Donny Jackson, Editor of IWCE'S Urgent Communications

Jump to the action here:
02:53: Market developments and MNOs in public safety with Alfonso de la Cruz
09:34: How market developments are leading to change at shows like IWCE, and how is IWCE responding to these changes? With Stephanie McCall
16:54: Any specifics we should be looking out for at IWCE? Wth Donny Jackson


Join me at IWCE 2022 where I'll be joined by my colleagues Alfonso de la Cruz and Oliver Philippou as we talk about the must-have products and technologies for mission critical communications by 2025.
Use the promo code SPEAKER20 to register for 20% off a conference pass or Free expo pass.
Register here: iwceexpo.com

Find our session here: https://agenda.iwceexpo.com/session/the-must-have-products-and-technologies-for-mission-critical-communications-by-2025/885756?_mc=sem_iwce_sem_iwce_evct_tspr__2022


Finally, to find out more about the latest Critical Communications Broadband Report released by Alfonso de la Cruz and referenced in this episode, find it here: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/products/critical-communications-broadband-report---2021

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We talk with TCCA's Tero Pesonen, Director and Board Vice-Chair as well as Chair of the Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) on how broadband LTE is transforming the critical communications industry, and the strategies MNO's are taking when addressing this market.

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We talk with the International Critical Control Rooms Alliance (ICCRA) about their important role in bringing end-users, vendors and service providers together to more effectively tackle common challenges faced by critical control rooms across industries. Our guest this episode is Chris Dreyfus-Gibson, who talks to us about control room evolution and the common themes he is seeing across critical control rooms.

Chris is the founding Vice Chair of ICCRA, a former senior police officer, and has held the posts of Head of the Force Control Room, Deputy Head of Policing on the London Underground, and Deputy Head of the Counter-Terrorism Support Unit. He currently leads the UK public safety practice for a global consultancy supporting law enforcement organisations.

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We take a look at some of the industry trends that will impact the critical communications market in 2022. In this episode we bring together multiple guests to share their view on what the most critical market trends for 2022 will be.

We touch upon a wide range of trends for 2022 in this episode, ranging from 3GPP standardised LTE, the expansion of ESN Connect, aging VHF radio systems, drone usage in public safety, body-worn cameras, the LMR installed base, spectrum sharing, FirstNet, IoT devices, the role of LEO, and hyperscalers in control rooms.

We're joined by four inredible guests:
- Thomas Lynch, Executive Director at Omdia
- Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst at Critical Communications Insights and Contributing Analyst at Omdia
- Donny Jackson, Editor of IWCE's Urgent Communications
- Ildefonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst at Omdia

Hear from each of us here:
0:57 Ken Rehbehn - Movement away from vendor silos; exansion of ESN Connect; aging VHF radio systems; the early days of drone usage
06:08 Thomas Lynch - Body-worn cameras driving media usage; the increase in LMR installed base
10:40 Ildefonso de la Cruz - Hybrid devices in critical communications
12:07 Donny Jackson - Spectrum sharing; IoT devices; FirstNet; the role of LEO
18:52 Paul Bremner - Hyperscalers fundamentally changing the control room market

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In this episode we bring together multiple guests to help summarise critical communication industry developments through 2021 and share what we've learnt, and how the industry has changed over the year.

We touch upon a huge range of topics in this episode, ranging from critical communications market resilience, hybrid LMR/LTE devices, national mission critical networks, direct mode, control room applications, supply chain issues, cybersecurity, NG911 standards and funding, LMR maintenance deals, and right through to digital transformation in control rooms!

We're also joined for the first time by Donny Jackson. Donny is the Editor of IWCE’S Urgent Communications, and has been generating content for the critical communications arena for almost two decades now, while also contributing to curating and participating in the annual IWCE conference program.

Our other guests for this episode include:
- Thomas Lynch, Executive Director at Omdia
- Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst at Critical Communications Insights and Contributing Analyst at Omdia
- Ildefonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst at Omdia

Hear from each of us here:
2:00 Thomas Lynch - 2021 Critical Communications industry overview
6:36 Ken Rehbehn - LTE/LMR device maturation and expansion; exanding array of national activity to launch Mission Critical networks; the enigma of Direct Mode; control room applications in the field
14:39 Ildefonso de la Cruz - Critical communications market resilience; supply chain issues
17:38 Donny Jackson - Cybersecurity; supply chain issues; NG911 standards and funding; strength of LMR maintenance deals
25:00 Paul Bremner - Digital transformation in control rooms

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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have moved from being a safe cities platform to reaching much wider into other facets of day-to-day city management, leading to increased demands for unified city wide communication systems to manage this complexity. Our guest this week is Thomas Lynch who talks to us about the role of critical communications in ITS.

Thomas Lynch leads the physical security and critical communications research team at Omdia. He and his team examine markets ranging from video surveillance and access control equipment, through to LMR and LTE communication technologies, command and control/PSAP technologies, fire and intruder detection equipment, right through to safe cities. He has more than 20 years of experience providing industry-leading insights, as well as over 20 years of operational, military, engineering communications, and security experience prior to switching over to the world of industry analysis.

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In this episode we cover some of the key highlights and what we learned from CCW 2021, including Spain's path towards a mission critical public safety broadband network, LMR sunsetting strategies different national MCC agencies are adopting, and exhibitor product announcements that caught our eye.

We're joined by two incredible industry analysts in the form of Ildefonso de la Cruz, Principal Analyst at Omdia, and Ken Rehbehn, Principal Analyst at Critical Communications Insights, who shared their thoughts on the conference, exhibition, and sessions they moderated at CCW 2021.

Critical Communications World, CCW, is one of the world’s leading critical communications conference and exhibition events, the show is usually held some time in June. However, this year's event took place on the 3-5th November in Madrid, Spain.

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