Public Safety

PacketHop unveils first announced customer

Mobile-mesh software company PacketHop this week made its first customer announcement: the Lakewood, N.J., Police Department, which deployed the solution during a music festival last fall and has plans for a more complete rollout this year

New year begins with a bang

Public-safety communications promises to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., during 2007, judging from the flurry of activity already seen in the form

Nantucket taps into wireless

Wireless Internet service provider WiBlast Communications will provide secure mobile broadband access to Nantucket, Mass., police cruisers when they are within the company’s coverage area on the island

Mayor: Images, video part of New York City’s 911 future

In an emergency, callers to the 911 system in New York City in the future will be able to include digital images and video to support their verbal descriptions of an incident, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week in his “State of the City” address.

Raytheon begins interoperability pilot in the Quad Cities

Raytheon yesterday launched a six-month pilot program in the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa that is designed to enhance interoperability and provide remote broadband access to first responders in the area

EADS demonstrates interoperability

EADS Secure Networks North America, a subsidiary of EADS North America, worked with General Dynamics and M/A-COM on December 1, 2006

Public safety wants interoperability funds tied to DHS guidelines

Interoperable communications funding of $1 billion should be distributed to public-safety agencies in accordance with established grant procedures used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), national public-safety representatives said in a recent letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce official

Motorola to drive TETRA system for Norway’s public-safety network

Together with Siemens, Motorola will supply core network infrastructure, software, implementation services and maintenance for a TETRA radio communications network for the Norwegian national public safety-network

Motorola builds Lithuania’s TETRA network

Motorola has been selected by Lithuania’s Ministry of Interior to deliver a nationwide Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) communications network

House passes 9/11 Commission bill

Led by its new Democratic Party majority, the House of Representatives this week passed an anti-terrorism bill designed to implement recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, including measures calling for public-safety interoperability and a new model for distributing Homeland Security funding

PacketHop unveils first announced customer

New year begins with a bang

Nantucket taps into wireless

Mayor: Images, video part of New York City’s 911 future

Raytheon begins interoperability pilot in the Quad Cities

EADS demonstrates interoperability

Public safety wants interoperability funds tied to DHS guidelines

Motorola to drive TETRA system for Norway’s public-safety network

Motorola builds Lithuania’s TETRA network

House passes 9/11 Commission bill

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?

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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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