NENA Announces International Next-Generation Emergency-Calling Plugfest & Testing Event

NENA is proud to announce the commencement of planning for the first trans-continental interoperability testing event for next-generation NG9-1-1 and NG112 emergency calling.

This event will be realized through the union of NENA’s ninth Industry Collaboration Event (ICE 9) with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI) and European Emergency Number Association's (EENA) fourth NG112 PlugTest. This event will be volunteer driven, with charter, objectives, test scenarios and findings developed through NENA’s ICE planning and steering committees, ETSI and EENA.

The ICE 9 + NG112 PlugTest 4 event will focus on international and global interoperability testing through jointly sponsored tests between NENA and ETSI/EENA. This event will cover a variety of scenarios including:

• ESInet / NGCS Interoperability testing between US and European environments, with lab-to-lab testing taking place between the NENA ICE 9 lab and the ETSI PlugTest 4 lab;
• Voice communications interoperability NG9-1-1 and NG112 core services;
• Testing of international peering scenarios and data interchange challenges/issues;
• Internet of Things (IoT) and automatic/non-interactive emergency calls; and
• Initial conformance testing of global implementations compared to normative standards including the NENA i3 family of standards the ETSI EMTEL specification.

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