SBC Board At-Large Candidate: Greg Glenn
Position Sought:
Candidate Statement:
My goal is to drive practices that help licensees enhance their LMR networks, so that public safety subscribers experience expanded coverage rather than reduced coverage due to improper enhancement mechanisms. This includes the best practices used for years, in the designing of radio system infrastructure, something that seems to have been forgotten over the last 5 to 7 years.
It is vital that the industry groups drive the use of technologies and practices that help our first responders communicate wherever they work, indoors and out and stop sacrificing macro coverage for indoor coverage. This can only be done through proper education of AHJ, integrators and Licensees. This can only be accomplished by not deviating from accepted laws and standards (as has occurred over the last few years) as well as developing implementation standards that assure that the radio systems are not negatively impacted using any type of enhancement devices.
Dear SBC voting members: from Comba Telecom’s and my personal perspective we have a very serious issue with ERCES systems causing significant network interference issues. For the most part all the issues are due to the lack of adherence to the FCC rules – and in most cases, this lack of adherence can be traced back to improper designs, and ultimately improper commissioning of the systems.
My goal in joining SBC as a Board member is to work with SBC to leverage their reach and industry influence to accomplish two things:
The interference caused by improperly deployed systems wreaks havoc on the networks, and in some cases is causing licensees and AHJs to consider not using ERCES – which is not good for First Responders or the citizens they protect.
Bio: Glenn has been the lead project engineer and project managed some of the largest LMR systems in the Western United States, including trunked radio systems that have encompassed multicast/simulcast designs some with over 100 sites. Glenn has been actively involved in some of the largest “in building” DAS deployments including filter and system designs for Boston Metro Transit, Grand Central Station, New York, and Los Angeles Metro Transit to name a few. Mr. Glenn started working with signal boosters and consulted various manufactures since the 1990s and is often called upon to solve interference issues stemming from the improper use and installation of signal boosters. Glenn has been involved in mitigating multiple licensee interference complaints across the Western United States. Since the 1980 Mr. Glenn has been involved developing best practices for intermodulation management both for high level sites as well as in building applications, long before the buzzword PIM was coined by the cellular industry. Glenn defined and managed the production of the first fiber Distributed Antenna Systems designed specifically to meet the needs of Public Safety while also supporting the needs of carrier market. The SOLiD Alliance DAS platform was the first to offer support for services from 136 MHz to 2.5 GHz and is being marketed throughout the US. Glenn is an experienced instructor now developing training for licensees, AHJs, licensees with a focus on “in building” enhancement techniques that do not interfere with networks and meets FCC rule requirements. Glenn participated as an instructor for CIBET (Certified “In Building” Engineering Technologist) a continuing education program sponsored by University of Colorado at Boulder and in house technical and sales training programs for Tri-Power Group, as well as training programs for NAPCO and other industry groups. Instrumental in the business development and the acquisition of funding for Pacific Wireless Technologies (PWT), a regional iDEN system operator. Orchestrated and managed the roll out of PWT, the fastest deployed iDEN system in the US (at the time), first call made less than three months from company inception. Pacific Wireless Technologies, a $90 million endeavor was purchased by Nextel in 2002.
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Greg Glenn