Nokia Group Communications optimizes video connections in emergency situations

This set of applications respond to the demand of public security agencies allowing the control personnel of the command center to have access to information to be able to react quickly to critical situations.

Nokia Group Communications is the company's new range of LTE-based public safety solutions that aim to provide emergency and first responders with secure communications..

This is a series of applications, previously integrated into a range of devices, that respond to the demand of public safety agencies around the world for high-security, high-quality solutions. These tools allow groups of field workers and command center control personnel to share live video connections to improve the information they have and be able to react in any emergency situation..

Support for 3G and WiFi networks ensures high service availability, even if there is no LTE network coverage. These applications can be used with the Nokia Compact Network, the solution that can be deployed quickly to enable emergency and first responders to establish a private network in emergency situations.

Nokia Group Communications' portfolio of solutions is aligned with 3GPP regulations and ready to meet the standards of 'push to talk' functionality in critical applications. This ensures compatibility with future standards that are released and with any devices that are available on the market in the future..

"Nokia Group Communications strengthens our global offering of public safety solutions with features that will help emergency and first responders react more effectively in a crisis.. With new applications, such as the 'tap to establish a video connection' functionality, prepared for full compliance with standards, we can guarantee public safety teams that they will be better informed of situations, and in this way the safety of all the people involved will be improved", explains Henri Tallon, Head of Public Sector at Nokia.

Features:

• High-capacity platform with real-time 'tap to establish a video connection' functionality for 1.000 active users, and 'press to talk' to 20.000 active users, on a single, scalable server.
• Order dispatch consoles incorporate voice, video and TV in closed circuit of mobiles.
• Applications aligned with 3GPP regulations.
• Offer fast call establishment with latency below 300 Ms.
• Secure communications with end-to-end encryption at the application layer.