APCO 2006 Daily Show Coverage

APCO 2006 DAILY NEWS

TA asks public safety to get more involved in rebanding

Aug 11, 2006 1:41 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--One week after the original negotiation deadline for Wave 1 NPSPAC licensees to sign 800 MHz rebanding agreements, only 5% of the deals are done and the Transition Administrator (TA) has not heard from more than half of the affected licensees...

Texas county builds interoperable system

Aug 11, 2006 1:44 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

ORLANDO--Architects of an interoperable communications system deployed in southwestern Texas stressed the importance of cooperation, planning and teamwork during a session held this week at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference...

Fed suggests interoperability liaisons in highest-risk cities

Aug 10, 2006 11:31 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO--A Department of Justice representative speaking yesterday at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference here proposed the creation of federally funded interoperability liaisons in the 10 cities at highest risk for a terrorist attack...

Speakers: Nationwide broadband realistic for public safety

Aug 10, 2006 11:43 AM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Public safety has multiple options to deploy broadband IP-based data networks that leverage commercial technology to deliver information to the emergency-response community, according to speakers addressing the subject at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference here...

Cisco introduces public-safety advanced technologies program

Aug 10, 2006 11:34 AM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--IP-based vendor giant Cisco Systems announced its Solutions with Advanced Technologies (SWAT) program this week here at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference...

Motorola adds TDMA spectral efficiency to P25 offering

Aug 9, 2006 2:28 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Motorola this week announced its next-generation platform for mission-critical communications, including an extension of its IP-based ASTRO 25 system that lets customers use their spectrum more efficiently...

M/A-COM unveils P25 solutions

Aug 8, 2006 11:08 AM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO—Wireless network vendor M/A-COM today announced at the Association of Public-Safety Communication Officials (APCO) 2006 conference the availability of ISSI and data capability solutions for Project 25 systems...

New JPS interface transforms analog radios to SIP

Aug 8, 2006 11:15 AM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Radio interoperability solutions provider Raytheon JPS Communications yesterday unveiled its analog radio adapter, the ARA-1, which lets analog radio systems join the IP revolution by transforming the signal to work on a session initiation protocol (SIP) network...

Data interoperability project nears completion

Aug 8, 2006 11:20 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO--A project begun in January to develop standards that would let a variety of public-safety agencies share data across multiple vendor platforms is scheduled to conclude next month, according to officials speaking yesterday at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference...

Motorola packages solution suites for public safety

Aug 7, 2006 12:16 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Industry giant Motorola today announced three new solutions suites designed to serve the public-safety community that will be displayed here at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) 2006 conference...

PacketHop expands offering to 4.9 GHz

Aug 7, 2006 12:42 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Ad hoc network software vendor PacketHop today announced that its PacketHop Communications System 2.0 adds support for the 4.9 GHz licensed public-safety band and cellular data networks...

Genesis announces P25 compatibility

Aug 7, 2006 12:10 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--Texas-based software vendor Genesis today announced that its GenWatch3 product will be available for any Project 25 radio system later this year and will be displayed with an EFJohnson system this week at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) this week...

APCO 2006 COMMENTARY

Answering $5 billion question a prerequisite to Cyren Call debate

Aug 10, 2006 3:23 PM, By Donny Jackson

ORLANDO--From the first day Cyren Call Communications and Morgan O'Brien proposed a public-private partnership to have commercial operators build a nationwide, public-safety-grade network for emergency responders, most discussions regarding the notion have ended in the same manner...

Interoperability might be a technology play after all

Aug 9, 2006 11:24 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO -- The universal feeling these days in the public-safety sector is that the technology to achieve interoperability already exists -- in the form of cross-patch and IP-based systems -- and that the real problem is a lack of regional planning needed to establish consensus on how to leverage the existing technologies. We have heard this repeated so often of late that it is approaching mantra status...

Interoperability requires less talk, more action

Aug 8, 2006 11:20 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

ORLANDO--During yesterday's keynote address by Gen. Richard B. Myers, the recently retired 15th Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference here, I thought of my father...

Things can always be worse

Aug 7, 2006 11:15 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO--While growing up, the days just before Thanksgiving were marked with eager, yet agonizing anticipation of what was to soon come. But the roller coaster of emotions wasn't because of the feast we would enjoy or the plethora of football games we would watch. Rather, it was because we knew that the annual Sears & Roebuck holiday catalog was about to arrive...