The Worldwide Consortium for the Grid has conducted a study examining the state of commercial wireless communications technology, deployment and services infrastructure to enable government and non-government organizations to reconstitute civil communications under emergency conditions impacting large areas of the United States and contiguous countries to which bilateral support agreements exist.
In this regard the W2COG has undertaken three tasks that will:

• Analyze the state of the commercial wireless networking environments to understand market trends and direction as well as current and future technology that can provide a capability that can be leveraged to enable fixed/mobile voice and data connectivity at the edge of the deployed network to provide interoperability and seamless access to the disaster response collaborative information environment. Propose technology that is readily available with robust commercial base and market share that does not rely on government support to maintain product viability in the market place.

• Analyze and assess the market research and state of commercial technology for commercial wireless and networking in reference to the ability and applicability of increasing the effectiveness of the disaster response mission. Consideration of interoperable communications, Quality of Service per Class of Service, information security and frequency and network management will be included. Analysis criteria should include ability to absorb simply new wireless communications technology over 10 year life cycles.

• Provide recommendations and alternatives, to include new developments, test, and integration of current and new systems, to meet the disaster response mission. A cost benefit analysis should be included for each recommended system to allow proper ranking of alternatives (i.e., are the Current and To Be military trunked radio solutions based on standards that permit interoperability with commercial wireless?)
The organization of this document contains all the results obtained as each Task is completed, with conclusions from each task.