NHSafeNet Statewide Public Safety Broadband Network

Green Mountain Designs and Delivers NHSafeNet Statewide Public Safety Broadband Network – Project Completed 2013

Challenge

Green Mountain was challenged with constructing NHSafeNet, a wireless public safety microwave network contracted by the University System of New Hampshire and implemented under the University of New Hampshire (UNH) led U.S. Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant titled, “Network New Hampshire Now (NNHN).” NHSafeNet was one of four primary broadband projects being implemented under NNHN at that time. The project was a collaboration of the New Hampshire Departments of Safety (NHDOS), Transportation (NHDOT), Resources and Economic Development (DRED), New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV), and the New Hampshire National Guard. This project challenged Green Mountain to combine each stakeholder’s existing parallel networks into a single shared network that would save taxpayers money by lowering support and equipment costs statewide.

Situation

The NHSafeNet project tasked Green Mountain with developing a strategic plan to improve and consolidate the existing statewide point-to-point microwave analog and time-division multiplexing (TDM) network that existed on 20 mountaintop sites throughout the state. Being one of the first states to integrate multiple stakeholders using existing traffic management protocols and configurations into a single shared wireless network, there was little to no guidance for designing New Hampshire’s combined network. Green Mountain had to develop a unique network that allowed all traffic to flow seamlessly through one IT platform, as well as prioritize stakeholders and allocate bandwidth limits for each.

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