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Taller deployable towers could provide a ‘light at the end of the fiber’ for disaster response

Development of deployable towers that are taller than 500 feet would be very useful in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, where the entire local communications infrastructure is unavailable.

News

FCC Chairman Wheeler describes multistate 911 outage report as ‘terrifying,’ vows to take action quickly

FCC commissioners say they want to take action soon in an effort to prevent 911 outages, such as one in April that resulted in more than 6,000 emergency calls being unanswered in seven states during a six-hour period.

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Public-safety communications vendors prepare for Urban Shield exercise

As first responders from throughout the United States—and some from international jurisdictions—prepare to participate in the Urban Shield exercises in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, officials for three vendors anticipate learning more about their solutions’ market readiness through their performance in the annual event.

News

Zetron’s Pathway offers radio-dispatch flexibility with standards-based solution

Zetron has a new Pathway radio dispatch solution that uses the TIA P25 Digital Fixed Station Interface (DFSI) protocol to connect as many as four console systems to one base station, providing dispatch centers with additional flexibility during potentially difficult transition times.

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New Orleans emergency response leaders discuss best practices for co-locating

Successful co-locating can be a challenge for even the most well-intentioned public-safety answering points (PSAPs), but it can be done with proper planning and effective communication, according to several New Orleans emergency-response leaders recounting their co-location experiences at APCO 2014.

Video

RCA: Doug Sharp discusses role of amateur radio in public-safety communications

Doug Sharp outlines the capability and the role that amateur radio can play in a public-safety response during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications staffer Kimberlee Payton-Jones. During the RCA breakfast on Tuesday morning, Sharp gave a presentation that was entitled “The use of amateur radio and digital technologies during the 2013 Colorado floods.”

News

Nokia, Harris team to provide deployable LTE solution

Nokia Networks and Harris collaborate on a deployable LTE solution that is designed for rapid deployment in areas with little or no coverage, where there has been a network outage, or where additional capacity is needed during a special event.

Video

INdigital Telecom: Ricardo Martinez talks about 911 telecommunicator stories shared from ‘Within the Trenches’

Ricardo Martinez, 911 systems trainer and designer for INdigital Telecom, discusses some of the telecommunicator stories he gathered for his “Within the Trenches” podcast during last month’s National Emergency Number Association (NENA) 2014 conference in Nashville.

News

Newscan: Lessons learned from the response to the Oso, Wash., mudslide

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Lessons learned from the response to the Oso, Wash., mudslide Bell Labs claims new speed record of 10 GB/s over copper LTE, are you always this loud? Love, Wi-Fi Dish Network tells FCC that it will bid in next year’s incentive auction Sprint to help bring LTE partners […]

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PSCR panel, attendees tackle controversial local-control aspect of proposed FirstNet LTE system

FirstNet officials have promised that its public-safety LTE system will include local control, but first-responder representatives need to do a lot of work to determine how agencies access the broadband network and who will be given priority during times of network congestion, according to panelists and attendees of a PSCR session on the subject.

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Commentary

Taller deployable towers could provide a ‘light at the end of the fiber’ for disaster response

News

FCC Chairman Wheeler describes multistate 911 outage report as ‘terrifying,’ vows to take action quickly

News

Public-safety communications vendors prepare for Urban Shield exercise

News

Zetron’s Pathway offers radio-dispatch flexibility with standards-based solution

News

New Orleans emergency response leaders discuss best practices for co-locating

Video

RCA: Doug Sharp discusses role of amateur radio in public-safety communications

News

Nokia, Harris team to provide deployable LTE solution

Video

INdigital Telecom: Ricardo Martinez talks about 911 telecommunicator stories shared from ‘Within the Trenches’

News

Newscan: Lessons learned from the response to the Oso, Wash., mudslide

News

PSCR panel, attendees tackle controversial local-control aspect of proposed FirstNet LTE system

Commentary

September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

Video

Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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