TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Fixed Station Interface Messages and Procedures – Addendum 1 – Interworking with an IWF

Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation.

Arlington, VA. (June 2, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-8.19 Engineering Committee on Wireline System Interfaces has issued a call for interest for document TIA-102.BAHA-A-1 initially titled ” Fixed Station Interface Messages and Procedures – Addendum 1 – Interworking with an IWF”.

TR-8.19 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: ” This addendum adds a normative annex to TIA-102.BAHA-A to enable interworking for the conventional services defined in phases 4 and 5 of the ATIS WTSC/TIA TR-8 Joint Land Mobile Radio to Long-Term-Evolution (JLMRLTE) architectural study of interworking between P25 LMR and 3GPP mission critical services.   In other words, it will describe how a 3GPP Inter Working Function (IWF) may act as a Conventional Fixed Station Host (CFSH) or Conventional Fixed Station Subsystem (CFSS) for the phases 4 and 5 digital conventional and analog conventional  interworking services.”

The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: manufacturers, users and providers of Project 25, Private Land Mobile Radio and 3GPP Mission Critical Communication services and equipment.

TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.

For more information about TR-8 and how to participate in standards development with TIA, contact Victoria Mitchell at standards-process@tiaonline.org.

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