Verizon Frontline Network Slice
Keep first responders' mission-critical devices connected even in periods of high network congestion with guaranteed, dedicated bandwidth. Powered by the most reliable 5G network in America.¹
Overview
Verizon Frontline Network Slice provides the highest level of priority and preemption for first responders by isolating your network traffic from the public. This helps ensure mobile devices and connected vehicles maintain high-performance connectivity when every second counts.
Features
Make your devices mission-ready
When every second counts, Verizon Frontline Network Slice gives your most critical mobile devices a dedicated, high-speed lane for secure data.
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Use cases
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Resources
Use case Verizon Frontline Network Slice in action
Discover how a dedicated network slice helps keep your most important mobile devices connected and your mission-critical data moving.
Video Verizon Frontline Network Slice
See how Verizon Frontline Network Slice prioritizes your team's data on 5G Ultra Wideband for secure, reliable connectivity in any environment.
Solution brief Dedicated 5G in
your hands
Get dedicated capacity for the devices your team carries on every mission: laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Solution brief Verizon Frontline Network Slice – Connected Vehicle
Communicate seamlessly in high-traffic conditions while on the go with our 5G in-vehicle routers.
Infographic A 5G lane built for the front lines
See how we use Intelligent Bandwidth Manager to clear the way on 5G, giving first responders the consistent, high-speed connection required for seamless operations when you're connected in your vehicle.
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FAQs
The Verizon Frontline network slice leverages advanced technology available on 5G standalone networks. This enables Verizon to create and manage multiple virtual networks using existing physical network infrastructure. A slice allows for tailoring specific network attributes to specific public safety needs, such as latency, throughput, and availability. This capability, designed for network traffic on Verizon’s cloud-native, containerized, virtualized standalone 5G core, offers unprecedented levels of service agility, flexibility, and automated scalability for network slicing for public safety.
Verizon Frontline Network Slice has added laptops, tablets, and smartphones as new categories for Public Safety. This initiative extends the Verizon Frontline Network Slice benefits—a dedicated 5G end-to-end virtual network—directly to these devices. This ensures priority, preemption, and improved Quality of Service for first responders during critical emergencies.
The Verizon Frontline Network Slice mobility and connected vehicle solutions use 5G standalone core capabilities to establish a highly reliable, dedicated 5G network lane tailored exclusively for the first responder network. It works seamlessly by:
Identifying and separating public safety traffic from commercial consumer data.
Routing prioritized data to an in-vehicle 5G router.
Optimizing the connection to provide consistent, high-speed performance in high-traffic conditions.
Uninterrupted access: Guaranteed access to dedicated network resources, bypassing public cell tower congestion.
Mission-critical communications: Ensures that critical video, voice, and telemetry data are always available to help first responders perform their duties.
Operational agility: Empowers rapid, coordinated responses directly from the field.
5G network slicing is the process of partitioning a single, physical 5G network into multiple, distinct virtual networks. For Public Safety, it means having an exclusive, secure "lane" on the digital highway. This ensures that emergency response communications are never delayed or throttled by civilian smartphone usage, guaranteeing fast and secure data transmission during critical incidents.
During natural disasters, sporting events, or mass gatherings, standard cellular networks often experience extreme congestion. Verizon Frontline Network Slice combats this through advanced traffic management:
- Preemption: Automatically clears the network path for emergency personnel data.
- Consistency: Maintains bandwidth requirements for data-heavy applications like remote monitoring.
- Interoperability: Keeps multi-agency communications fluid and responsive.
Yes. When paired with 5G network slicing, an emergency vehicle is transformed into a fully connected mobile command center. This setup allows commanding officers to view drone feeds, track personnel locations in real-time, and coordinate complex responses without experiencing latency or needing to return to a physical dispatch headquarters.
For tablets, it provides clinical and tactical precision; paramedics can stream high-fidelity patient vitals and 12-lead EKGs to the ER with reduced jitter. Firefighters can also rotate 3D building schematics smoothly without lag.
For laptops, the slice acts as "the office anywhere," maintaining consistent throughput for continuous productivity in high traffic areas. It offers fiber-like performance natively, allowing officers to bypass a standard phone hotspot.
Yes. Verizon Frontline Network Slice benefits for laptops, tablets, and smartphones are exclusively targeted at verified Public Safety NAICS categories. This ensures that the dedicated network resources are strictly reserved for critical entities such as police departments, fire and rescue, emergency medical services (EMS), and national security agencies.
Security is an inherent advantage of our 5G standalone architecture. By utilizing network slicing for Public Safety, mission-critical communications are virtually isolated from public data streams. This separation acts as a built-in defense mechanism to protect sensitive agency data, dispatch locations, and personal health information from external cyber threats.