E-911 director: Even small PSAPs can provide text-to-911 services

  Brian Rosen, co-chair of the NENA i3 Architecture Group, provides a status update for Version 3 of the NENA i3 standard for next-generation 911 (NG911), which is entering its second public review and comment phase and could be finalized as early as March 2021. Version 3 of i3 includes several notable additions, including new […]

RapidDeploy and AT&T announced an expansion of their relationship, allowing AT&T to offer 911 centers access to RapidDeploy RadiusPlus Mapping and Eclipse Analytics solutions, as well as continuing to a similar arrangement for RapidDeploy’s Nimbus cloud-aided dispatch platform, according to officials for the companies. RapidDeploy CEO and co-founder Steve Raucher said the 2018 CAD partnership […]

Motorola Solutions highlighted growth in its video, services and command-center software businesses, which helped offset notable declines in the company’s land-mobile-radio (LMR) sales, company officials said this week. “I’m very pleased with the progress we’re making in our command-center software business,” Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. “Our command-center […]

Dish Network’s Marc Rouanne said that the edge of the company’s coming 5G network will sit wherever the company’s customers want it to sit. “The edge is everywhere,” he said. “Our customers will be able to decide.” He added that Dish’s 5G network will have the ability to move beyond the confines of its own edge and […]