Newscan: California firefighters use augmented reality to fight record infernos

Southern Linc—the southeast U.S. regional carrier that also provides communications for the Southern Company utility—is leveraging its 800 MHz LTE network to provide two flavors of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service to customers, according to Southern Linc officials. Southern Linc was long known for its iDEN network, but the carrier recently completed a transition to LTE that […]

  Paul Steinberg, Motorola Solutions’ senior vice president of technology, demonstrates how the company’s CommandCentral platform helps transform the ever-increasing information into public-safety into relevant intelligence that can help first-responder entities make good decisions that result in efficient operations before, during and after an incident.

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  John Rosati, senior vice president of sales for the Avtec unit that Motorola Solutions recently purchased, says it is “business as usual” in the short term for existing Avtec customers, but they can expect tighter integration between Avtec products and Motorola Solutions offerings to be developed in the future.