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Cisco IPICS Operational Views

The Cisco

IP Interoperability and Collaboration System (Cisco IPICS) portfolio of

products and applications streamlines daily operations and allows organizations to rapidly

respond to incidents or emergencies. It dissolves communications silos between

disparate Land Mobile Radio systems and devices such as mobile phones, landline

phones, IP phones, and PC clients-users can communicate with whatever device they

have, from wherever they are. Users can be paged or emailed with the status of an event,

and can be automatically called and invited to join a virtual conference, further improving

situation awareness and reducing response time. Cisco IPICS provides flexible and

scalable communications interoperability, enhancing the value of existing and new radio,

telephony, and IP communications networks.

The Cisco IPICS Operational Views (Ops Views) application augments Cisco IPICS by facilitating

interagency collaboration while providing each participating entity the ability to selectively share

and maintain control of its own resources. When multiple agencies, jurisdictions, locations, or

departments have a need to share information or resources across “ownership and organizational

boundaries”, Cisco IPICS Ops Views offers a dynamic mechanism with secure control and logical

segmentation of the management, visibility, and access to system resources so that organizations

can function fully independent and autonomously from on another.

With Cisco IPICS Ops Views, each agency or jurisdiction retains control of its own

communications resources, including people, networks, and devices. The resources that belong to

each entity appear in a separate operational view on the Cisco IPICS Administration Console

(Figure 1). Agencies can stipulate which resources they will share with other agencies during

emergencies and routine operations, based on governance and local agency policy needs. To

share a resource as an incident escalates, the dispatcher who belongs to one operational view

creates a virtual talk group (VTG) and includes the previously shared dispatcher resources from

other operational views. Then all dispatchers simply select appropriate personnel or

communications channels from a list of their own resources that are not published to the other

operational views and add them into the existing VTG, thereby enabling these resources to

communicate directly across operational views during an incident. The ability to share resources

across operational views facilitates simple, scalable, comprehensive communications

interoperability among agencies, departments, or locations.