This presentation was given by Steve Proctor, Director of the Utah Communications Agency Network, to the Utah Broadband Advisory Council on January 12, 2012.
2. UCAN is not: The Utah Cancer Action Network
UCAN is : The Utah Communications Agency
Network
Formed in 1997 by the Legislature
Purpose: To construct and maintain a public safety
grade communications network to serve state and
local government
Partnership between state and local agencies
3. Governor Leavitt: First Staff: 1999
Task Force in 1993 36 Months to Build
Legislative Bill 96 & 97 43 UCAN/20 Olympic
passed in 1997 sites
16 E-9-1-1 Centers
Agency Input !!! interconnected
Management Board 95% In-building
Executive Committee
4. The system was designed to support public safety.
With the 2002 Winter Olympic Games Bid, it
became a partnership event to support the games.
Communications for 8 counties hosting the venues
Communications for management of the Games by
SLOC
Total of about 12,000 users
$17M Bond, plus several Federal Grants
Survived the turf battles, and politics going forward
6. This was the largest public safety event ever in Utah
It was 4 Months after the largest terrorist event in the USA—
with BAD interoperability and communications
We had to be prepared and it had to work
Olympics/Para Olympics: 10,600,000 calls or an average of
500K per day
Portable to Portable great coverage
Network Call Management is Critical
7. Trunked Radio allows the use of multiple channels
autonomously by many users—while having the
ability to use the same channel also……
System to System patch thru consoles
Channel patch: FED/State/Local
Unit to Unit Simplex—State and National
Conventional Repeaters
Operations channels--Trunked
Regional Channels--Trunked (county wide)
Events Channels--Trunked (system wide)
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10. Success of the system motivated the move to expand the
coverage
Successful consolidation with Salt Lake County
Upgrade of the system network
Additional Federal Funding thru PS Interoperability Grants
and DOJ grants
Users quickly started to migrate to the new system
Expanded the coverage into other areas/improved coverage
Cache-Rich-Box Elder
Washington
Uintah, Duchesne
I-15 Corridor
US 89 to Richfield
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23. THE UCAN SYSTEM SERVES 91AGENCIES
CHALLENGES MET:
Turf Issues, Wait and See, What are the costs?
Shared Vision: What will it look like?
Timing: build and serve at the same time
Technology Obsolescence: build or wait
How to Communicate with those who don’t
participate
24. The system has a presence in 25 Counties
It serves 147 public safety agencies
There are over 23000 radios on the system
Agencies are continually adding radios to the network
33 of the 36-911 dispatch centers are connected
The system has doubled in size: from 41 to 83 sites with 8
additional sites funded for installation
The system has grown from 293 to 650 Repeaters (talk
paths)
Approximate Investment 85 Million Infras. and radios
We are 10 years into a 20 year life cycle—its time to plan and
fund the replacement
Future systems are all digital and IP Based
25. Additional 10 or so sites planned for more coverage
Laying the Political Groundwork for funding
What to do about funding, options??
Agency input and awareness
Which system do we choose??
How do we continue to maintain what we have??
New Partnerships—what will they be
Timing of the Change: “we have to keep the airplane
flying while we change the wings!”
26. Next Generation 911: whatever products, services and
access that will create will require more bandwidth
Same connection facilities for Rural Utah
D Block Initiative: Broadband services to public safety
providers: nationally and locally
Public Safety must have Priority Service
Connecting the dots: Public Safety networks traditionally
have multiple nodes to connect
▪ -Dispatch Facilities
▪ -Transmission Facilities
▪ -Field Unit access to Data and Communications
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28. • We identified a “Common Pain” which brought the stakeholders together
• A “Convener of Stature” supported the effort-Governor
• A committed leader was identified as a ”broker” to keep it together
• OPENESS, TRANSPARENCY, VOLUNARY PARTICIPATION
• Critical Mass--- We had a drop dead date: The 2002 Olympics
• Utilize representatives who can and will make decisions
• Agree on a clearly defined purpose and goal
• Have a formal charter outlining: Governance structure, outcomes, funding and
levels of participation
• Recognize the solution requires continued “nurturing and management”—You
don’t fix it one time and then it goes away
• We can’t do it alone, but we can do it together…….