TCCA Webinar Series 2020: MCS-TaaSting
10th June 2020 | 16:15 CEST
A lack of certification programs for critical broadband has allowed the misuse of the MCPTT/MCData/MCVideo terms with vendors making ambiguous claims such as ‘3GPP aligned’, ‘MCPTT ready/capable/forward-compatible’ and so on, thus jeopardising customer confidence.
The innovative Mission Critical Services Testing-as-a-Service approach (MCS-TaaSting) aims to fulfil the specific needs of the mission critical community in terms of flexible conformance testing.
It will allow the industry to prove the 3GPP standards-compliance of their implementations and will give users and operators the confidence to buy compliant products.
This webinar is for vendors, users, operators, test houses – for anyone in the critical communications ecosystem looking for future proof and interoperable implementations of mission critical services.
The MCS-TaaSting project is led by the Networking, Quality and Security (NQaS) research group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), supported by leading organisations in critical communications; industry associations and testing experts including:
The MCS-TaaSting project work is performed under the financial assistance award 70NANB20H005 from the US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Presented by:
Dr Fidel Liberal, Coordinator of MCS-TaaSting project, University of the Basque Country
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Fidel is a recognised expert in the mission critical communications environment. He currently works at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) where he leads different mission critical communications and 5G related R&D projects.
He is the coordinator of both the MCS-TaaSting and Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) initiatives. He has served as technical expert in NG112 and the ETSI MCX PlugtestsTM and has also co-founded two security and mission critical communications related spin-offs.
Michael Proestler, founder and CEO, GridGears
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As founder and CEO of GridGears, Michael Proestler drives the company vision of standard compliant, highly efficient and interconnected emergency services.
After graduating from Vienna University of Technology in 2008 with a master’s degree in Computer Science, Michael gathered a lot of experience as a software engineer, designing and implementing mission critical systems for public safety.
Having acquired additional knowledge as a consultant within the sector, Michael later founded GridGears in 2017 with the mission to drive, support and realize standard compliant public safety services.
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