ExteNet Systems: Eric Abbott outlines wireless-carrier opportunities to serve healthcare enterprises

Mark Crosby, president/CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), talks about his organization's new spectrum-coordination responsibilities in the 2360-2390 MHz band for medical body-area networks (MBANs). Users of MBAN devices will share the spectrum, which currently is being used for flight-testing applications.

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Eric Abbott, director of product management and strategy, highlights the revenue potential that wireless carriers–particularly in rural areas–can realize by developing reliable, secure solutions for the healthcare sector.

Darren Kastner, SafeMobile's vice president of sales, demonstrates how the company's radioPad Base Station application lets user control two-way-radio functions via Wi-Fi and he SafeBridge LAN unit during this conversation with IWCE's Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the EWA/USMSS Wireless Leadership Summit in Denver.