Moon on a stick
This is what happens when you want the moon on a stick, yet nobody had planted the seed that would grow into the tree that would supply the stick.
I recall phrases like "it'll be an app that will run on our Blackberry phones", and the alarm bells going off in my head.
The people who wanted the ESN had no idea about anything to do with Comms, RF, or reality if the truth is known.
They were just desperate to dump Airwave and it's growing costs as the tapering contract signed by the minister at day one meant that it just got more and more expensive.
When Macquarie decided to get rid of Airwave, the Home Office should have bought it and that would have ended the massive cost burden in one hit, but they seem to be allergic to owning anything. Should have been in-house from day one.
One thing ESN has done is accelerated the development of secure apps and functions within the 3GPP standards.
It's a cluster-f**k of a project. It will never do what it was asked (D2D being one function) and let's not forget, the only reason it's EE and Motorola, everyone else walked away.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
