Public Safety

Vertex Standard debuts UHF/VHF portables

Vertex standard introduced the VX-920 Series of UHF (400 MHz to 470 MHz and 450 MHz to 512 MHz) and VHF (134 MHz to 174 MHz) portable radios

Copps says FCC needs to help public safety more

DENVER–Federal regulators should do more to aid public-safety communications, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said last night in a keynote speech during the gala event that closed this year’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) annual conference

Proxim jumps into 4.9 GHz, Wi-Fi mesh networking

DENVER–Proxim Wireless Corp. announced during this week’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference here the availability of its wireless municipal mesh network solution that operates in the 2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands and offers broadband connectivity to municipalities where it is cost-prohibitive to install network wireless edge access devices

Raytheon JPS offers special pricing on ACU-T

DENVER–Raytheon JPS announced during APCO that it would temporarily reduce prices for its ACU-T Tactical Intelligent Interconnect System

Catalyst unveils next-generation of RoIP software

DENVER–Radio-over-IP solutions vendor Catalyst Communications Technologies announced during APCO Version 4.42 of its software that adds capabilities designed to let users better control and manage their RoIP dispatch and interoperability systems

Project MESA slows as vendors hold out

DENVER–Project MESA was launched five years ago as a collaborative effort between the United States and Europe to identify and create common specifications for the next generation of public-safety wireless systems, yet progress has been sluggish

ClosedNetworks CEO warns of 4.9 GHz band issues

DENVER–Ed Vea, chief executive officer of ClosedNetworks, tempered the hype surrounding the prospects of the 4.9 GHz band, highlighting the fact that several cost and network considerations come into play that won’t make planning high-speed mobility networks easy

Vertex Standard debuts UHF/VHF portables

Copps says FCC needs to help public safety more

Proxim jumps into 4.9 GHz, Wi-Fi mesh networking

Raytheon JPS offers special pricing on ACU-T

Catalyst unveils next-generation of RoIP software

Project MESA slows as vendors hold out

ClosedNetworks CEO warns of 4.9 GHz band issues

Vehicle-tagging solution addresses high-speed chases

M/A-COM intros quad-mode radio

Eventide, Genesis Group partner on digital trunked logging solutions

Commentary

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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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