DNA, Ericsson and the State Security Networks Group Finland tested prioritisation of public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) services in the 4G LTE network
(WorldNews Finland)

DNA, Ericsson and the State Security Networks Group Finland demonstrated how commercial LTE network might be utilized by the authorities maintaining safety and order in situations when high quality continuous data communications must be guaranteed to the authorities. Such situations may include sharing status pictures and videos from the site of a crisis or group video calls. Dynamic prioritisation of traffic and pre-emption were verified as test cases. Dynamic prioritisation means that capacity required is continuously assigned to the PPDR subscriptions. In other words, this means that PPDR traffic uses the same frequency band as the commercial traffic, but in case of high...