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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a Site Access Agreement with the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) Authority to install network antennas on existing City-owned communication towers to support the Public Safety Broadband Network, and to execute any needed subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council authorization is requested to execute a Site Access Agreement with the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) to install network antennas on existing City-owned communication to support the Public Safety Broadband Network. LA-RICS is planned as an integrated system serving the Los Angeles County region through voice and data radio communications systems. These systems constitute an interoperable communications network that could improve communications for first responders in real time and across jurisdictional boundaries for emergency response. LA-RICS is made up of two independent systems; the Public Safety Broadband Network Long- Term Evolution (LTE- data) and the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems. Allowing our regional partners to install LA-RICS antennas on existing infrastructure will strengthen the ability of participating agencies to communicate with one another in the event of a regional disaster or mutual aid situation.
LA-RICS has retained Motorola to design and construct a regional interoperable LTE-data system as part of the LA-RICS integrated system. The LTE-data system is a broadband wireless network technology that will provide day-to-day data communication service for individual public safety agencies, provide emergency responders with high-speed access to life-saving multimedia information, and support the National Public Safety Broadband Initiative. The LTE-data system will provide a secure 4G data network to provide high-speed video and data access that is exclusive to public safety response. Motorola has identified four sites in Long Beach wher...
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