Harris-Nokia: Tim Romanelli, Dharmesh Tyagi highlight capabilities of new network-in-a-box platform supporting BeOn, other apps

Bruce Lawler, chief products officer for Kodiak, explains how his company's carrier-integrated, push-to-talk (PTT) solution for LTE differs from over-the-top PTT applications during this conversation with IWCE's Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson. Because of this, Kodiak's path to meet the new LTE mission-critical PTT (MCPTT) standard should be much more straightforward than will be for competitors.

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Mark Ketchum, communications systems engineer for the city of Broken Arrow, Okla., discusses the work done to provide a regional P25 system and integration efforts with LTE. Ketchum contributed to the design of the Harris XL-200P, a portable radio that which supports communications across multiple LMR bands, LTE and Wi-Fi.

Dean Picha, an engineer at Motorola Solutions, demonstrates how enhanced geofencing—new fuctionality available on the company's ASTRO 25 systems—allows for quicker updates to responders' radios as they approach an incident scene.