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Nemergent Solutions: Eneko Atxutegi discusses company’s MCPTT offering

  Eneko Atxutegi, research & development manager for Spain-based Nemergent Solutions, talks about the company’s mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) client and server offerings that meet the performance criteria associated with the 3GPP standard for MCPTT. Atxutegi spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting being conducted in Chicago this […]

FirstNet Authority standards director recaps June 3GPP Plenary Meetings in Newport Beach, Calif.

The June quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meetings in Newport Beach, Calif., addressed standards in several areas relevant to the evolution of the public-safety broadband communications and the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN). The major topic across the 3GPP plenary meetings was planning for 3GPP Release 17 (R17). This release will be built […]

UK Home Office awards Motorola Solutions with 15-month ESN extension worth more than $100 million

Motorola Solutions has been awarded a 15-month contract extension worth 82 million pounds (more than $104 million) to supply Kodiak push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) and other Emergency Services Network (ESN) services for United Kingdom (UK) public-safety agencies through December 2024. In addition to adding time and money to Motorola Solutions’ previous ESN contract, the no-competition contract extension […]

Mark43, Polaris Wireless partner to deliver first-responder 3D location information to CAD system

Polaris Wireless has announced plans to have its three-dimensional (3D) location technology integrated into the 911 computer-aided-dispatch (CAD) system from new partner Mark43 to help monitor the location of firefighters and other public-safety personnel, particularly when responding to an incident inside a multi-story building. Public safety has long utilized GPS technology to track the XY […]
ESN program director says most of UK public-safety LTE system will be finished in fall 2020

ESN program director says most of UK public-safety LTE system will be finished in fall 2020

First responders in the United Kingdom (UK) should be able to use push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) technology on the Emergency Services Network (ESN) nationwide public-safety LTE network next year, according to Bryan Clark, Home Office’s program director leading the ESN project. Clark made the statements during his keynote presentation the Mission Critical Technologies (MCT) even in London […]

Five companies showcase enhanced application capabilities at Verizon’s 5G First Responder Lab

Verizon recently conducted an event demonstrating the capabilities that five companies working in the carrier’s 5G First Responder Lab can bring to public-safety users when connected to Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network that operates on hundreds of megahertz of millimeter-wave spectrum. “We’ve been working with those five companies to inspire them, to explore and build […]
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