New Wireless 9-1-1 Location Accuracy Testing Tool Designed to Help PSAPs Validate Wireless Caller Location Accuracy

Business Wire,  July 16, 2008  

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WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- RCC Consultants, Inc. introduced ComSite911e[TM] to benefit the Nation's 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points by providing them the means to independently test and verify the accuracy of wireless 9-1-1 caller location information delivered to 9-1-1 centers by wireless service providers.

When the location information of a wireless 9-1-1 caller is not available or reported to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) inaccurately, the response of emergency services can be delayed with dire consequences.

RCC Consultants developed a wireless 9-1-1 location accuracy testing solution, called ComSite911e[TM], specifically to help the Nation's PSAPs assess the accuracy of location information that is delivered to their PSAP by any wireless carrier. The testing methodology used by ComSite911e[TM] is based on nationally recognized standards published by the Federal Communications Commission. ComSite911e meets the needs of PSAPs that want to perform periodic checks on the location accuracy of wireless 9-1-1 calls.

"Using our experience in conducting the Nation's first wireless 9-1-1 location accuracy testing to provide municipalities with the ability to rapidly and accurately verify wireless 9-1-1 location data being delivered to their PSAP is part of RCC's ongoing commitment to the public safety community", said Dr. Joseph Y. Nasser, Senior Vice President of RCC's Public Safety Information Systems Group. "Having a tool to verify the accuracy of wireless location data at the PSAP level is indispensable in helping emergency responders quickly locate wireless 9-1-1 callers in the community."

ComSite911e[TM] provides the ability to perform ad-hoc testing in defined target areas or across the entire service area, inside buildings, and over water. Testing can be performed for only one wireless service provider or for multiple wireless service providers. ComSite911e[TM] can also verify the accuracy of wireless calls made on Next Generation 9-1-1 systems. ComSite911e[TM] is fully upgradable to RCC's ComSite911[TM] location accuracy testing system as local requirements change.

ComSite911e[TM] will be officially unveiled at the Associated Public Safety Communications Official - International 74th Annual Conference and Expo, August 3-7, 2008, in Kansas City, MO, booth number 830.

About RCC Consultants, Inc.

RCC Consultants (RCC) is an international telecommunications consulting, engineering, integration, and outsourcing firm that has served the industry since 1983. RCC provides solutions to its clients' problems through the application of both wireless and wired communications and information technologies.

RCC services include the full range of processes, tools, and expertise needed to advance a telecommunications business concept or project from a strategy, to a tactical plan, through implementation, to full operation. A professional staff with a rich variety of experience and qualifications serves clients through the provision of consulting, engineering, software development and products, project management, and operational support. RCC's work includes the evaluation of user needs and requirements definition, evaluation, budgeting, design, procurement support, deployment, project management, acceptance testing and management of network infrastructure and/or services.

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