NENA recently brought together twenty-two leading companies in the public safety space for an Industry Collaboration Event (ICE) where participants tested the location-based emergency call routing elements at the core of Next Generation 9-1-1 systems. Known as the Location to Service Translation (LoST) hierarchy, this functionality is essential to ensure reliable and predictable emergency call routing and related location validation regardless of the media type (e.g., voice, text) or device used to place a 9-1-1 request for assistance.

Click here to read the full NENA statement on ICE 4.