News Public Safety Alliance: Virginia earthquake underscores need for dedicated network 23rd August 2011 Today’s earthquake shows why public safety shouldn’t be forced to rely on commercial-carrier networks that struggle to handle increased demand during such scenarios, a public-safety consortium official said.
News Public safety readies for final push on Capitol Hill 18th August 2011 New APCO president provides insight on where things stand with federal legislation that would reallocate the vital 700 MHz D block spectrum to public safety.
News Experts: Cybersecurity is becoming a bigger problem for mission-critical entities (with related video) 17th August 2011 Today’s IP-based systems are “exponentially” increasing the opportunities for hackers, because there are many more breach points, L.R. Kimball’s J. Kevin McGeary said.
News When public safety talks, Capitol Hill now listens 16th August 2011 Bill Carrow, APCO’s outgoing president, spoke about the effort to get the D Block spectrum reallocated to public safety, as well as couple of other noteworthy initiatives.
News FCC bureau chief: Don’t count on narrowbanding waivers 11th August 2011 David Furth cautioned operators of land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems operating at 512 MHz and below that the commission’s Jan. 1, 2013, deadline for narrowbanding those systems isn’t going to change.
News Nixle offers next-generation messaging product for free (with related video) 10th August 2011 Nixle announced the launch of its next-generation Nixle Connect platform at no cost to government agencies, which have used the company’s secure technology to leverage social media and text messaging to communicate directly with their constituencies.
News Motorola unveils LTE devices, hosted core offering (with related video) 8th August 2011 Motorola Solutions announced plans to provide hosted LTE core solutions to public-safety entities and new LTE devices at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Philadelphia.
News Cassidian demos LTE push-to-talk, devices and unified communications (with video) 8th August 2011 Cassidian Communications is demonstrating the ability to deliver one-to-many and one-to-one push-to-talk communications using smartphones or tablet computers over an LTE network during the APCO conference in Philadelphia.
News NIST studies Joplin’s structural engineering, emergency response 4th August 2011 Its team of researchers will review the widespread destruction across a range of building and construction types, along with the large death toll despite a comparatively substantial warning time.
News GPS aids Missouri Task Force 1 during Joplin search efforts (with related video) 26th July 2011 Team gathered information by using mobile tracking logs that automatically transmit location data back to the emergency command center via consumer GPS and mapping software.
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