November 22, 2011 LITTLE FERRY, NJ — Eventide Inc., a provider of advanced communications recording systems to 9-1-1 centers, today announced that it recently participated in i3 interoperability testing at the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) Industry Collaboration Event #4 (ICE 4).  During ICE 4, Eventide focused on NG9-1-1 call logging and recording capture for the NexLog recording platform.  Introduced in August, Eventide’s NexLog communications logging recorders have been designed to capture, record, and archive media from a wide range of systems, including Next Generation 9-1-1, VoIP telephone systems, radio over IP (RoIP) networks, digital PBX telephone systems, analog sources, and more.

About NENA Industry Collaboration Event #4:
NENA held the Industry Collaboration Event #4 (ICE 4) in Irving, Texas at the AT&T Center for Learning during the week of 11/14/2011. The focus of the event was emergency call routing based on the LoST hierarchy. This is the core function required to assure reliable and predictable emergency call routing and location validation regardless of the media type or device being used to place a call. The largest and most complex ICE event ever undertaken, it culminated in a successful multi-vendor testing process, resulting in heightened awareness and recognition of the requirements necessary for interoperable call routing. The twenty-two companies involved evaluated multi-vendor interaction between Emergency Call Routing Functions and also included the following functional entities:

–           Emergency Services Routing Proxies

–           Location Validation Functions

–           Location Information Servers

–           Legacy Network Gateways

–           Call logging and recording

–           NG9-1-1 PSAP CPE

–           SIP User Agents

The testing explored a greater detail of specification called for in the requirements in a variety of different “real world” situations focusing on call routing. Specifically, the following interactions and protocols were evaluated:

–           Recursive and iterative LoST queries

–           Multi-Hop routing cases involving a combination of a forest guide, state-level ECRF, and regional or local “leaf node” ECRF’s

–           Default routing and error handling at the ECRF and ESRP level

–           LIS based location validation utilizing an LVF in a variety of different scenarios

–           Call logging and recording interaction

About Eventide Inc.
Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Little Ferry, NJ, Eventide developed the first digital logging recorder in 1989. Eventide communications logging systems empower 9-1-1 PSAPs, public safety agencies, utilities, universities, transportation networks, and military agencies worldwide with advanced connectivity, exceptional incident management tools, and outstanding Linux-based system reliability.  Visit Eventide online at www.eventide.com to learn more.

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