Gallery: Pictures from Antenna Evolution Focus Day and Signaling Focus Day pre-events to LTE North America in Dallas

Dereck Orr, division chief for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program, talks about his organization's new initiatives—two of which involve mission-critical voice over LTE and LMR-LTE interoperability—that are being funded by $300 million in proceeds from the FCC's AWS-3 spectrum auction.

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​Houston continues its recovery efforts amid severe floods in the aftermath of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey, but the city’s P25 network “stayed up and hummed through the whole thing,” despite losing one site to flooding and facing oil-replenishment challenges for backup generators, according to the city’s Deputy CIO Tom Sorley.

RAD, a communications-solutions provider for power utilities, announces that the company’s platform is being used by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as part of the large utility’s effort to transition from its legacy TDM architecture and meet cybersecurity requirements that will become effective next year.