Video HipLink: CEO and President Pamela LaPine highlights reliability, flexibility of company’s notification system 8th July 2015 HipLink CEO and President Pamela LaPine demonstrates the ability for her company’s notification application to deliver notifications reliably on multiple device platforms during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson on the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo show floor in Denver.
News Airbus DS Communications still looking for a buyer, plans to sell global division as one unit 6th July 2015 Airbus DS Communications remains on the selling block and current plans call for all Airbus public-safety-communications assets worldwide to be sold as a single package, according to Airbus DS Communications CEO Bob Freinberg.
Video Rave Mobile Safety: Todd Piett highlights functionality of new Smart911 Location module 3rd July 2015 Todd Piett, Rave Mobile Safety’s chief product officer, explains how the company’s new Smart911 Location solution leverages commercial location data from assets like Wi-Fi access points can help PSAPs more accurately identify where first responders can find an emergency caller.
Commentary The National 911 Progress Report: Tracking progress toward next-generation 911 2nd July 2015 Significant progress toward the implementation of next-generation 911 (NG911) is occurring in states and counties across the nation according to the findings in the current National 911 Progress Report.
Video Oracle, ModUcom, Stancil: Companies demonstrate denial-of-service attack on PSAP, method to combat it 1st July 2015 Kevin Pitts of Oracle Communications, Walt Jones of Modular Communications Systems (ModUcom), and Simon Farrow of Stancil Corporation demonstrate how a denial-of-service (DoS) attack can cripple a 911 network, and how an Oracle solution installed in a border-control element in a 911 network can allow a public-safety answering point (PSAP) to return to normal operations quickly after such an attack.
Video NENA: CEO Brian Fontes highlights training, technological evolution in 911 space at this week’s show 30th June 2015 NENA CEO Brian Fontes outlines some of the organization’s efforts during the past year—from member training to regulatory progress on 911 location accuracy—and reflects on the technological evolution in the emergency-calling arena during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.
Commentary National 911 Progress Report provides unprecedented insight into state 911 operational and financial data 30th June 2015 In 2013, more than 149 million emergency calls were received in the 39 states that shared data through the National 911 Profile Database. This is just one of the data points featured in the National 911 Progress Report released earlier this year, which provided the most holistic and detailed reporting of state 911 data in the history of 911 service.
Video Motorola Solutions: Brian Long highlights virtualization benefits in latest release of PremierOne CAD system 30th June 2015 Brian Long, senior solutions specialist at Motorola Solutions, outlines the benefits that virtualization brings to dispatch customers that migrate to the new PremierOne 4.0 platform, including scalability and accelerated disaster-recovery processes, during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.
Video TriTech: Erik Loberg explains how company’s CLQ 911 wireless location offering works 30th June 2015 Erik Loberg, director of product management for TriTech Software Systems, details how CLQ—the company’s new 911 wireless location application—utilizes commercial-carrier network data to provide 911 personnel with a new method to determine an emergency caller’s location and an alternative means of communicating with the caller. Loberg spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.
News Rave Mobile Safety unveils 911 location-accuracy solution for wireless callers indoors, outdoors 29th June 2015 DENVER—Rave Mobile Safety announces the “controlled release” of Smart911Location, a new feature of the company’s Smart911 platform that leverages information from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other commercial infrastructure to provide enhanced location accuracy when 911 is contacted via a wireless device.
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