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Social media can play an important role in a community’s emergency response

History has proven time and again that communication is often hampered when a natural disaster strikes. Wildfires create widespread chaos that expands beyond political and government-managed borders; flooding events can evolve quickly, making it difficult for first responders to know what’s going on in the corners of their jurisdictions; hurricanes bring ashore intense wind, splintering telephone poles and overwhelming […]

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GenCell: Alex Saucedo shares benefits of hydrogen-fuel-cell offerings for backup power

Alex Saucedo, GenCell’s director of sales for the Americas, discusses characteristics of the company’s hydrogren-fuel-cell technology, which can provide resilient backup power as long as months at a time. Saucedo outlines the capabilities of both existing offerings and the development roadmap for future products, as well as the availability of hydrogen needed for the […]

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Lynk official: ‘We’ve solved the uplink challenge’ for LEO satellite-to-phone connectivity

Cell-tower-in-space connectivity provider Lynk Global yesterday announced that it has proven that its low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-to-unmodified-cell-phone technology support two-way communications—a finding that could prove significant for the public-safety and critical-communications sectors. “This month, Lynk proved out two-way communications capability,” Lynk COO Margot Deckard said yesterday during a session at the IWCE 2021 conference in Las […]

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Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover highlights broadband mi.mec smart-infrastructure platform, support of myriad community services

Adair Grover, CEO of smart-infrastructure provider Wi-Fiber, explains how the company’s mi.mec private edge-cloud service and community-engagement platform lets municipalities like Canton, Ohio, realize capabilities like gunshot detection, real-time video analytics and automated transportation systems, as well as the delivery of the rural broadband that enables virtual learning and telehealth. Click here to view Grover’s […]

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Cobham: Robb Robinson highlights Explorer’s LMR coverage-extension capabilities via LTE, satcom

Robb Robinson, Cobham SATCOM’s head of critical solutions for the Americas, showcases the components of the company’s Explorer solution, which lets users extend their land-mobile-radio (LMR) coverage area by seamlessly leveraging LTE and satellite connectivity. IWCE 2021 attendees can learn more by visiting company officials at Booth 757 during exhibit-hall hours.

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AINA Wireless: Maximilian LeRoux demos LTE speaker microphone’s direct-mode PTT capabilities

AINA Wireless CEO Maximilian LeRoux showcases the company’s Kepler LTE speaker microphone, which enables normal push-to-talk speaker microphone functionality with a twist: the ability to support direct-mode communication at distances up to a mile, which is about twice the greatest range achieved via LTE proximity-services (ProSe) solutions to date. IWCE 2021 attendees can learn […]

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Assured Wireless: John Goocher unveils new HPUE-capable MegaGo kit

John Goocher, president and CEO of Assured Wireless, describes the functionality packed inside the high-power-user-equipment (HPUE) company’s new MegaGo kit, a rugged case that is designed to be carried to a scene, providing extended-range broadband communications–via the MegaRange HPUE service and the ability to daisy chain MegaGo kits–to support response efforts in areas that […]

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Verizon: Nick Nilan, Carlo Thompson showcase SPOT, THOR deployable vehicles

Verizon’s Nick Nilan and Carlo Thompson highlight features of the carrier’s “workhorse” deployable–a satellite picocell on truck (SPOT)–and the massive Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response (THOR) vehicle, a prototype communications vehicle that acts as a “Swiss Army knife” of communications at the scene of an emergency. IWCE 2021 attendees can learn more about the deployable […]

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Nextivity: Victor Mejia outlines benefits of new Cel-Fi SOLO RED integrated public-safety BDA

Victor Mejia, senior product manager for Nextivity, discusses the capabilities of Cel-Fi SOLO RED, the new integrated bi-directional amplifier (BDA) solution being launched this week during the IWCE 2021 event in Las Vegas. Using only a half-watt of output power, the new BDA is designed to support public-safety communications inside smaller structures at an […]

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Michigan: Brad Stoddard demonstrates interoperability via Motorola Solutions’ Critical Connect

Brad Stoddard, director of the Michigan Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS), demonstrates some of the functionality enabled by Critical Connect, the cloud-based interoperability platform from Motorola Solutions. Stoddard spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications editor Donny Jackson during the IWCE 2021 event being conducted this week in Las Vegas.

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