Open Multi-Purpose Gateway for Emergency Services Internetworking

Access to a variety of networks will be a central part of technologies employed by future emergency responders. Incompatibilities are often introduced as a result of widely disparate uses and varying capabilities of devices, which must be resolved through internetworking. This requires devices such as gateways to connect these networks and enable communication to the furthest extent possible. This paper outlines a number of specific cases in which gateways may be used as well as the capabilities different available devices offer and how they can be used for multiple purposes in an emergency services context.