Won’t increasing advancements in video technology allow us to transmit higher quality video using less spectrum in the near future?
On the one hand, video encoding and compression advancements anticipated in the next decade will increase the optimization of rate control, motion estimation, and adaptive noise reductions, and thereby shrink the transmit size of a given video stream. And we will see some improvements in the LTE technology over time. But consider also that the number of users on both the Public Safety and the commercial networks will continue to grow. In addition, as history on both Public Safety and commercial networks will show, valuable new applications will come to market that need more and more bandwidth. Public Safety and the FCC all anticipate that Public Safety will need more bandwidth to accommodate this trend. Today, we know that 10 MHz alone will not support Public Safety video applications offering the lowest acceptable quality for real-time incident scene decision-making. Thorough analysis and modeling by Public Safety agencies and leading vendors have considered the state-of-the-art, best
