§1422 Public Safety Broadband Network

Summary

The First Responder Network Authority must create and maintain a nationwide public safety broadband network that works across the country and for different agencies. The network must use a single national design that can change as technology improves. That design includes a core network and a radio access network. The core network is made up of national and regional data centers and other distributed parts, built to commercial standards, and it links the radio access part to the public Internet or the public phone network (or both). The radio access network is the cell sites, antennas, and backhaul gear, also built to commercial standards, and it must be developed and run taking into account the plans from the State, local, and tribal planning and implementation grant program under section 1442(a).