Top 10 most-read stories of 2015

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Secure voice communications can be delivered using 3GPP’s mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard across solutions provided by multiple vendors, according to tests recently announced by Bittium, Athonet, Nemergent and the Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) project. Fidel Liberal, coordinator for MCOP, said the testing—conducted this fall at the ETSI MCX plugtests event in Finland—is a big step […]

Terry Burnworth, president of Pyramid Consulting Services, explains the challenges that 911 centers–particularly smaller centers in rural areas–face as 911 transitions from a voice-centric operation to one that needs to process data, photos and video from a variety of sources, including IoT sensors, surveillance cameras and witnesses at an incident scene. On Dec. 11 at […]

Sierra Wireless last week announced its AirLink Managed Network Service that includes FirstNet connectivity via a Sierra Wireless AirLink MP70 LTE wireless router that is designed to give public-safety agencies access to broadband without stressing local IT resources, according to a Sierra Wireless official. While the MP70 router included in the offer is the same […]