Gear
EMERGENCY INTERNET SERVICE PLAN
Hughes Network Systems unveiled the HughesNet Emergency Business Internet service plan in anticipation of the 2009 hurricane season. The offering is designed to provide broadband Internet connectivity for business and government organizations when a disaster strikes. The service plan uses the Spaceway 3 Ka-band satellite system to provide download speeds of up to 5 Mb/s and uploads speeds of up to 1 Mb/s.
http://business.hughesnet.com
PLUG-AND-PLAY ANTENNA
STI-CO announced its new plug-and-play antenna for public safety and covert vehicles. The antenna is a magnet-mount antenna that works with any portable antenna whip with a flush SP connector, according to the company. It adapts to the user’s specific frequency and is available alone or with an optional whip, according to the company.
www.sti-co.com
MASS-INTERCEPT LOCATION SOLUTION
Polaris Wireless announced the availability of a mass-intercept location application that can pinpoint the location of all mobile devices in a network within 50 meters, allowing intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to locate millions of handsets in real time, the company said. The solution leverages Polaris’ Wireless Location Signatures technology to match incoming signals to an extensive database of values to determine accurate handset location — regardless of the type of environment.
www.polariswireless.com
INTEROPERABLE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
AtHoc announced it has fully tested interoperability between the company’s IWSAlerts and Cisco’s Internet Protocol Interoperability and Collaboration System. The integration lets the AtHoc system trigger emergency notifications through the Cisco platform to reach people on land mobile radios, IP phones, landline telephones and mobile telephones. The integration expands the number of devices and systems AtHoc can notify through its unified console for emergency alerting, which already supports notification to computers, telephones, sirens, public address systems, AM/FM radios, television and other emergency alert systems, according to the company.
www.athoc.com
ENHANCED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
NICE Systems enhanced its Inform full-spectrum multimedia incident information management solution, which consolidates and manages multimedia incident information — including audio, video, text and data — allowing captured 911, emergency and other voice communications to be synched with surveillance video and other incident information. Inform Version 3 includes an enhanced media player that lets recipients view and create incident reconstructions, including time-synched voice and video. The new version also includes Inform Verify, which gives call-takers instant access to recordings through their consoles.
www.nice.com