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Avaya and Komutel Establish the Road to New Levels of Public Safety Capability With Ontario Provincial Police
[October 28, 2019]

Avaya and Komutel Establish the Road to New Levels of Public Safety Capability With Ontario Provincial Police


Avaya (News - Alert) Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) and Komutel, in close collaboration with Combat Networks, Bell Canada, and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), conducted the first Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) emergency test call in Ontario and one of the first in Canada using commercially available solutions.

During a test conducted with Bell Canada (News - Alert), the Komutel-Avaya NG9-1-1 call handling architecture successfully received an NG9-1-1 test call from the Bell 9-1-1 ESInet network. This key milestone is a first step towards more fully implementing Next Generation 9-1-1 services, which will be introduced in Canada starting June 30, 2020, and in preparation for the decommissioning of the national E9-1-1 services by June 30, 2023.1

Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is a cross-industry initiative that strengthens and improves how 9-1-1 calls are handled. It reimagines the response possibilities of emergency services, allowing responding agencies the opportunity to have greater context, smoother workflows, and improved operating efficiency. This ultimately helps empower public safety agencies to respond to emergencies with greater speed and effectiveness for better outcomes that save lives and property. Over time, NG9-1-1 workflows will include voice, text, video, files, telematics information, and rich data about the call, caller, and location. With roughly 300 Public Safety Access Point (PSAPs) across Canada, Komutel and Avaya serve the largest number of them jointly.

"In situations where time is vital, seamless communication can make all the difference," said Brian Silverstone, VP Canadian Federal Government Sales and Public Safety, Avaya. "Komutel and Avaya are proud to partner in bringing innovative solutions and support to Canada in supporting the transformation of their 9-1-1 communication centers. We're excited about the potential that NG9-1-1 can deliver to help in improving emergency responsiveness, and to see how a commitment to standards and software-based architectures can be leveraged to support digital transformation."

"Together, Komutel and Avaya serve the largest number of PSAPs in Canada and are fully committed to making our client's transition to NG9-1-1 as tailored as possible to their specific needs while minimizing risks and disruptions," said Yves Laliberté, President, Komutel. "Support for the NG9-1-1 standards as adapted for Canada is only the beginning and the IP architecture lends itself well to workflow automation to improve PSAP operating efficiencies."

"9-1-1 services have been in place for many years without much advancement," said Deputy Commissioner Rose DiMarco, Traffic Safety and Operational Support, OPP."NG9-1-1 brings significant opportunities to increase our effectiveness for handling and responding to emergencies. We're proud to conduct the first NG9-1-1 call in Ontario. This early stage of NG9-1-1 testing is paving the way for better interaction with 9-1-1 services for all citizens in the years to come."

"We were excited to have Combat Networks' Technical Integration Specialists be a part of the successful testing of NG9-1-1 in collaboration with the Ontario Provincial Police," said Rob Finucan, Chief Executive Officer at Combat Networks. "The dedicated team of professionals from Bell Canada, the OPP, and our vendor partners, Avaya and Komutel, have demonstrated that both the technology and expertise for future successful NG9-1-1 deployments are one step closer to becoming the new standard for Emergency Services in Canada."

Earlier this year, leveraging their longtime relationship as an Avaya DevConnect partner, Avaya and Komutel deepened their collaboration to provide NENA i3 Call Handling Functional Element solutions to address the needs of large and small public safety agencies as they evolve to NG9-1-1, and leverage communications to support digital transformation initiatives driving improved citizen engagement and operational efficiencies.



Additional Resources

1 https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-182.htm


About Avaya

Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and every day millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE: AVYA). For over one hundred years, we've enabled organizations around the globe to win - by creating intelligent communications experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration - in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. To grow your business, we're committed to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what's next. We're the technology company you trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.

About Komutel

Komutel is a leading developer of 911 communication solutions which are easily integrated with our Public Safety Client's existing telecommunications and IT infrastructure (IT, VoIP, TDM, UC, Centrex, VM, mobiles, and radio). Komutel's portfolio of 911 solutions is designed to be cost effective, and facilitate migration from legacy environment to NG9-1-1(Nena i3) standards while minimizing risks and disruptions as much as possible. Based on Open Standards, the Komutel architecture enables clients to configure the modular applications according to their specific needs, requirements and operational preferences. Komutel is a privately-owned company founded in 2001.

About Combat Networks

Since July 2001, Combat Networks has assisted its customers by designing and architecting state of the art high-performance networks. We have been installing, and training supported vendor solutions as well as maintaining, monitoring (NOC (News - Alert)), and troubleshooting as required. Headquartered in Ottawa and with offices across Canada, we serve many of the country's largest Federal and Provincial Government Departments, National Defense Interests and Fortune 1000 companies. Our corporate mission is to be recognized by our customers as the most knowledgeable, most responsive, and most valuable external resource for network infrastructures where security, performance, and reliability are vital requirements. Everyone at Combat is focused and dedicated to your success by providing a complete lifecycle solution from network planning and project management through to post-sales support and network transition services. Combat has the people, skills, and products to work for you at all stages of the network infrastructure lifecycle.

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