News Sonim CEO reiterates public-safety focus, says company ‘is not for sale’ 4th February 2020 Sonim Technologies is “not for sale” and intends to continue developing rugged public-safety broadband products, including high-powered user equipment (HPUE) that take advantage of 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum to extend the effective range of devices, according to new Sonim CEO Tom Wilkinson. “We are absolutely committed to public safety,” Wilkinson said during an interview […]
Video Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools 4th February 2020 Jared VandenHeuvel, program coordinator at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), outlines the emergency scenarios that Winter Institute participants responded to during exercises conducted last week at Texas A&M University and the surrounding area. VandenHeuvel also discusses new communications tools and the need for different skill sets within response units to take advantage of […]
Partner content Spanish carmaker promises V2X for new Leon model 4th February 2020 Seat has promised to include the first mass-market application of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology in its new mid-segment Leon model. To be sold in hatchback and station wagon versions in the European market, the Spanish sub-brand of the Volkswagen Group hopes to draw on its on-street V2X experiments near its base in Barcelona carried out with domestic […]
Video Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover highlights versatility of smart-streetlight solution 3rd February 2020 Adair Grover, CEO and president of Wi-Fiber, outlines the capabilities of his company’s Intelli-Platform, a smart-streetlight device that supports 30-mile point-to-point links and a variety of broadband communications, as well as housing a host of sensors that can detect gunshots, air quality and temperature. Grover spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the Winter […]
Video Harris County: Greg Jurrens explains how FirstNet can address LMR backhaul challenges 31st January 2020 Greg Jurrens, senior manager of radio services and public–safety technology for Harris County (Texas) Universal Services, describes how the county has used prioritized FirstNet broadband to provide backhaul links to deployable LMR units in challenging rural environments where commercial networks can get saturated, such as along the route to the funeral of former President George […]
News AT&T to finish 80% of FirstNet buildout in coming months, exec says 31st January 2020 AT&T expects to complete 80% of the contracted buildout of the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) “in the coming months,” an AT&T executive said yesterday. AT&T Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Stankey made the statement during the company’s quarterly earning call with financial analysts while discussing company officials’ belief that AT&T will add more […]
Video Matrix: Matthew Hodgson highlights benefits of secure, open-source collaboration tool 28th January 2020 Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of Matrix and CEO/CTO of New Vector, outlines key features of Matrix, an open-source collaboration platform that is designed to be secure enough to support public-safety communications and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives for smart cities in an affordable manner. Hodgson spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson yesterday during […]
News GAO report says FirstNet on track, calls for greater oversight, transparency 28th January 2020 AT&T is meeting all contracted deployment and adoption goals for the FirstNet public-safety broadband network, but the FirstNet Authority could improve the system’s chances of success by improving oversight and transparency to stakeholders, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released yesterday. “The success of the network depends not only on AT&T’s contract execution […]
News City of Oakland turns to Motorola Solutions’ cloud-based disaster-recovery service for CAD 24th January 2020 Oakland, Calif., has selected Motorola Solutions’ new cloud-based “Disaster Recovery as a Service” (DRaaS) solution as an alternative method to access the PremierOne CAD system in the event of an earthquake, wildfire or other incident that causes the on-premise infrastructure to be unavailable. City of Oakland CIO Andrew “Pete” Peterson said that he believes having […]
Audio RapidDeploy: Steve Raucher outlines features of FirstNet-listed mobile app, Eclipse analytics platform 21st January 2020 RapidDeploy CEO Steve Raucher highlights the capabilities of the company’s Nimbus CAD mobile application that has been listed by FirstNet and its Eclipse analytics platform, both of which leverage cloud functionality to help public-safety agencies make response decisions informed by real-time data.
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