Forth Worth, Texas, 11:15AM CDT — For the first time ever a test 9-1-1 call was routed between two separate Emergency Service Internet Protocol Networks (ESInets) and delivered to a call taker workstation at the US Department of Transportation /NENA Interoperability demonstration at the 2009 National NENA Conference and Trade Show in Fort Worth, Texas.
The microDATA - a leading provider of Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) technologies - ESInet interfaced with the ESInet at the Texas A&M University (TAMU) Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center.
This landmark call-routing event was possible because both microDATA’s and TAMU’s ESInets – IP-based networks shared by all agencies that might be involved in a 9-1-1 emergency – were engineering to published national call-routing standards. The routing components were provided by Texas A&M University (TAMU) and microDATA.
The calls were generated from the NENA Convention Hall in front of a small crowd of witnesses. The initial leg of the call was processed by the TAMU Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP) in College Station, Texas and delivered over the Internet to the terminating Emergency Services Routing Proxy ( T-ESRP ) in St Johnsbury, Vermont running microDATA’s soft switch and finally, the call was answered at a call taker position running microDATA’s CPE located in Fort Worth, Texas.
This is proof positive that standards based NG9-1-1 equipment is interoperable and provides a giant leap forward in moving this critical IP based and soft switch technology into production 9-1-1 environments.
To learn more about microDATA’s NG9-1-1 solutions please visit ProductsMain.htm. For more background on Texas A&M University and the Department of Transportation project responsible for providing the originating ESRP go to http://www.its.dot.gov/ng911/ . To review the relevant NENA standards please visit http://www.nena.org/technical-standards.
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