Newscan: Control over security is prompting big industrial companies to explore private 5G wireless networks

  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.

Rave Mobile Safety’s over-the-top software solution soon will support live video streaming, allowing 911 dispatchers or other public-safety officials to initiate a streaming session from a 911 caller or someone else with a smart device that is in the vicinity of an incident, according to a company CEO Todd Piett. Demonstrated earlier this month at […]

Motorola Solutions has been awarded a 15-month contract extension worth 82 million pounds (more than $104 million) to supply Kodiak push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) and other Emergency Services Network (ESN) services for United Kingdom (UK) public-safety agencies through December 2024. In addition to adding time and money to Motorola Solutions’ previous ESN contract, the no-competition contract extension […]

  Jeff Lewis, director of the smart-region initiative for Joint Venture Silicon Valley, outlines the benefits that government entities can realize by coordinating communications initiatives with each other and key private entities, such as utilities and telecom firms. Lewis also cites some of the challenges associated with forging such relationships, such as short election cycles […]