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Law Enforcement/Public Safety
Kansas becomes first statewide deployment
site of AT&T NextGen 911 solution
TOPEKA, KS, April 27, 2017 AT&T
and the Kansas 9-1-1 Coordinating
Council continue to improve the
9-1-1 experience in the state. Kansas
will be the first statewide deployment
of AT&T ESInet.
AT&T ESInet is a new NextGen
9-1-1 solution that provides IPbased
call routing services to emergency
response centers. It will help
Kansas boost 9-1-1 reliability, speed
emergency responsiveness and improve
disaster recovery. For Kansans,
this means a faster, more reliable
9-1-1 experience.
This builds on Kansas’ previous
investment to modernize its outdated
public safety technology with a
NextGen 9-1-1 hosted call handling
solution from AT&T.
“Updating our 9-1-1 infrastructure
is key to keeping our
people safe, and selecting AT&T
was an obvious choice,” said Dick
Heitschmidt, chairman of the Kansas
9-1-1 Coordinating Council and
Hutchinson chief of police. “AT&T
provides our public safety community
with a comprehensive NextGen
9-1-1 solution, delivering the value,
expertise and teamwork needed to
create the current and future experiences
our residents expect. It’s our
goal to stay on the cutting edge of
public safety, and AT&T ESInet will
help to make that a reality.”
With AT&T ESInet, Kansas will
have more sophisticated capabilities
to route calls based on the caller’s
geographic location. Public Safety
Answering Points (PSAPs) will also
be able to manage and route advanced
communications like text
messaging to 9-1-1. In the future,
Kansas PSAPs will be able to support
pictures and videos sent via
text message. This is crucial in today’s
mobile environment where
more than 70% of the calls made to
9-1-1 come from a mobile device.
“AT&T ESInet will help propel
Kansas into the next generation of
public safety. It’ll give Kansas emergency
services an advanced network
to better meet the needs of residents,
first responders and 9-1-1 call takers
today and tomorrow,” said Jon
Wellinger, assistant vice president,
AT&T Global Public Sector.
Since AT&T ESInet is a highly
secure and resilient nationwide
service, it will give Kansas access
to geographically diverse and redundant
call processing locations
throughout the country.
This will let the state work with
other ESInet-enabled 9-1-1 agencies
nationwide to:
• Maintain service during a natural
or man-made disaster.
• Help save precious time by routing
calls and texts correctly.
• Automatically route calls to
neighboring PSAPs when call volumes
spike.
Other benefits include access to:
• A defense-in-depth, private network
with multiple layers of security
– like firewalls and intrusion
detection/prevention. This will
help protect Kansas 9-1-1 infrastructure
from cyber threats.
• Industry standard components
that will give the state backward
compatibility with legacy 9-1-1
systems and services.
The capabilities that NextGen 9-1-1
technologies will give to PSAPs and
the public will become a necessity.
Working with AT&T, Kansas is on
track to move 75% of its PSAPs to
NextGen 9-1-1 hosted call handling
by the end of this year.
“We’ve long supported Kansas
public safety needs, and we are
proud to continue our great relationship,
helping Kansas on its mission
to future-proof its 9-1-1 infrastructure,”
said Wellinger.
By making it easier to manage
9-1-1 calls, AT&T ESInet will help
Kansas public safety resources go
further, so they can focus on what
matters most: protecting people and
saving lives.
AT&T is a leader in first responder
connectivity. We’ve been enabling
and innovating public safety communications
for nearly 140 years.
We will continue this commitment
as we build America’s first-ever nationwide
broadband network dedicated
to first responders.
To learn more about AT&T ESInet,
check out corp.att.com/publicsafety.
For more information on how
Kansas has been updating its 9-1-1
infrastructure, visit kansas911.org.
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