Техническая Спецификация для Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 4.5
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Cisco IPICS Operational Views
The Cisco
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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.