Intrado: Steve Lowe discusses strategies to ensure that next-gen data does not overwhelm 911 telecommunicators
Steve Lowe, senior vice president for Intrado, talks about some of the strategies the company is pursuing to help simplify next-gen 911 interfaces for telecommunicators, many of which have expressed concern that they could be overwhelmed by multimedia information in the next-gen environment.
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