John Contestabile: We as consumers take for granted having broadband
technology. We can get access to information that your average law
enforcement or public safety official doesn't nessesarilly have access to.
Clay Stamp: Whats really important is that we be able to drive information
to our police, firefighters and paramedics in a timely manner.
John Contestabile: We want to bring some of those capabilities to the
first responder and this project on datacasting is one of those efforts.
Mark O'Brien: Every television station operates on a
six megahertz channel. Twenty megabits is coming
out of every transmitter all the time every television station all over
the United States. What the process of datacasting is allocating
a portion of that twenty megabits to sending out encrypted computer
data. And so here comes public and the ability to
deliver that digital information today. 15 00:00:52,950 --> 00:00:55,990
model that also allows
encryption, it allows us an opportunity to send
secure information over a network. You have this tv signal that can be
subscribed to that we don't have worry about someone else getting.
This is protected at a level much greater then where we are today.
John Contestabile: Video increasingly is important to the public safety community.
because they can get eyes on whatever they're responding to
whatever they're walking into.
Lt. Bret Collier: we have folks that are watching cameras 24 hours a day so
when something happens they'll report to the officer what they're
seeing. But something always gets lost in the translation.
the advantage to this is we can send that video directly 27 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:33,350 to the officers. They can look at an image and know exactly what they're looking at.
Mark O'Brien: The idea of being able to share information
with ten or a hundred or a thousand or a million people 30 00:01:39,450 --> 00:01:43,480
community. And thats one of the
the many reasons they have an interest in working with public television
to address these issues.