Cisco IPICS deployed to enhance interoperability in Massachusetts 

By Donny Jackson

Four Massachusetts fire control centers have deployed Cisco Systems’ IP Interoperability and Collaboration System (IPICS) to provide interoperable voice communications between the entities today and serve as the foundation for new levels of data interoperability in the future...

Ethertronics antennas included in new DriveCam product 

By Donny Jackson

DriveCam’s newest video solution will feature integrated, high-performance antennas from Ethertronics, allowing DriveCam’s windshield-mounted video-event recorder to be smaller and more durable...

Verizon Wireless chooses LTE for its 4G migration 

By Donny Jackson

Verizon Wireless, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., yesterday announced plans to use Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband network...

Selling public safety on broadband network might be tougher than expected 

By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO--There is little question that the proposed nationwide public safety wireless broadband network for first responders will deliver capabilities—by leveraging next-generation commercial technologies—to first responders in the field that previously were the stuff of fantasy. However, based on the discussion today at the IWCE-MRT Wireless Summit, proponents of the network will have some work to do to convince first responders those capabilities not only are needed but also worth the monthly user fees they’ll have to pay to access the network...

Alltel Wireless partners on chemical, biological solution  

By Mary Rose Roberts

Alltel Wireless announced last week that it now supports a chemical, biological and radiological agent detection software developed by Alluviam...

Sprint Nextel nixes WiMAX plans with Clearwire 

By Donny Jackson

In a blow to the WiMAX industry in the U.S., Sprint Nextel and Clearwire today terminated their letter of intent to jointly build and operate a nationwide mobile WiMAX network on the companies’ complementary 2.5 GHz spectrum assets...

JPS partners on emergency alert systems 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Raytheon’s JPS Communications yesterday announced that it has partnered with Missoula, Mont.-based Invizeon Corp., to market an emergency alert system to universities and public-safety customers...

RedMoon chooses BelAir gear for Texas mesh deployment 

By Donny Jackson

BelAir Networks this week announced that RedMoon will use BelAir equipment to build a wireless broadband mesh network throughout the Town of Addison, Texas, which plans to use the network for town functions like public safety, as well as community access...

Meru announces WLAN video-surveillance certification program 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Meru Networks today announced its Video Unplugged Program, a video over wireless LAN (WLAN) partner program that tests and certifies multi-vendor video products for interoperability over a company’s enterprise wireless network...

Cisco to buy mobile WiMAX firm 

By Donny Jackson

Cisco System this week announced its intent pay $330 million to acquire Navini Networks, a wireless broadband access equipment maker that boasts several WiMAX deployments and deployments of pre-standard mobile WiMAX technology...

ADC to pay $169 million for LGC Wireless 

By Donny Jackson

In-building wireless solutions provider LGC Wireless today announced it has agreed to be acquired by established telecom vendor ADC for $169 million in cash and other considerations...

Cisco, JPS partner on interoperability solution 

By Donny Jackson

Raytheon JPS announced this week announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems that will integrate JPS’s ACU-2000 IP gateway with Cisco’s Interoperability and Collaboration System (IPICS) to deliver interoperable communications not only across agencies, but also across devices...

Cisco targets government market 

By Donny Jackson

Cisco Systems this week announced its Cisco Mobile Government solution, which is designed to give public-safety and government workers mobile access to high-speed applications via wireless connections in licensed and unlicensed bands...

Motorola unveils 5.4 GHz broadband portfolio 

By Donny Jackson

Motorola this week announced the immediate availability of Canopy point-to-multipoint (PMP) and point-to-point (PTP) products that operate in the newly available 5.4 GHz spectrum band...

DHS launches radio-over-wireless-broadband pilot 

By Donny Jackson

A pilot designed to test ability to integrate new broadband technologies with existing public-safety two-way radio systems could provide information that could be helpful in the buildout of a proposed nationwide broadband wireless network in the 700 MHz band, a government official told MRT...