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Keeping the Signal Strong: A Practical Guide to FirstNet-Ready Connectivity for Public Safety Vehicles and Buildings

Establishing reliable, FirstNet-ready connectivity in public safety vehicles and buildings is a requirement that is critical, urgent, and challenging. For FirstNet to be successful, public safety vehicles and buildings often require significant upgrades. This white paper helps decision makers quickly become knowledgeable about FirstNet connectivity and simplifies the complexity of LTE antenna implementations for public […]

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Benefits of End-to-End Vocoder Integration

Introduction Mission critical situations depend on wireless communication. It is becoming increasingly popular to connect Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks such as APCO Project 25 and Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) systems with commercial cellular LTE networks. This can provide commercial and public safety users with more ways to communicate, while improving overall coverage areas, decreasing […]

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PTT/Future of Voice Series

As push-to-talk services evolve, the wireless industry is heading toward uncharted territory. Most major manufacturers are preparing for this shift with new products and technologies to address the changing marketplace. In this series, understand the transformation happening in the PTT field as LMR evolves, Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) use increases with LTE, and Mission-Critical Push-to-Talk […]

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Cloud and Fog on Mission-Critical Communications Series

Cloud-based solutions are commonplace for most enterprises, which are attracted to the Cloud’s resiliency, heightened functionality and lower upfront costs when compared to premise-based internal hosting of information. Public safety and other critical-infrastructure entities traditionally have been hesitant to depend on the Cloud, because they need solutions to work at all times, even when connectivity […]

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5G Series

5G is the biggest buzzword in the industry, seen and heard on virtually every commercial for a carrier network, as well as in other sectors. As with other transitions to a new generation of wireless technology, 5G promises faster data rates. But 5G is designed to also provide other performance characteristics that are important to […]

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Coverage and Connectivity Series

To say that being connected is essential in the modern world is an understatement. But even the best provider doesn’t cover the entire country. Driven primarily by poor business opportunities, vast rural areas and urban locations that are in large buildings or are underground are candidates to be “dead zones” in wireless coverage. In this […]

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Speech Intelligibility Evaluation Highlights Differences Between LTE Public Safety Devices

Speech intelligibility is a critical requirement for first responder communications devices. In the real world of noise-filled emergency environments, being misunderstood or having to repeat oneself can have catastrophic consequences. Spirent recently became the first organization to offer a Speech Intelligibility Evaluation service based on the ABC-MRT16 algorithm developed by the U.S. National Telecommunications and […]

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IWCE 2017 eZine

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APCO 2017 Event Coverage

APCO 2017 in Denver was a busy show—not surprising, considering the fact that it was the first major public-safety event conducted after FirstNet released its initial state plans in June.

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APCO 2016 Coverage

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Keeping the Signal Strong: A Practical Guide to FirstNet-Ready Connectivity for Public Safety Vehicles and Buildings

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Benefits of End-to-End Vocoder Integration

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PTT/Future of Voice Series

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Cloud and Fog on Mission-Critical Communications Series

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5G Series

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Coverage and Connectivity Series

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Speech Intelligibility Evaluation Highlights Differences Between LTE Public Safety Devices

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IWCE 2017 eZine

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APCO 2017 Event Coverage

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APCO 2016 Coverage

Commentary

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

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The @FirstNetGov labs are evaluating not yet available #PPT #LTE devices. Firstnet Authority board members say thes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Our last #PTT and #futureofvoice webinar is tomorrow! Join us for the "Decision time: Balancing Investments in MCP… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The CEO of @MotoSolutions said that FirstNet LTE is complementary to #LMR in response to their introduction of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Don't miss the "Next Generation Dispatching - What is the Future of Dispatch?" webinar on Dec 11 at 2 PM ET. Our ex… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

At OCR2019, Michael Quiroga, @flyasylon's chief revenue officer demos how their autonomous drone service includes a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Terry Burnworth, president of @Pyramid_ACE1 explains the challenges that #911centers face as transitions from voice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

President and co-founder of @FLYMOTIONmedia demonstrates the ability of the company's drone service to provide trad… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ioan Pop describes the features of a durable security-enhancement robot prototype call Roameo that can be customize… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…