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How 3D location can increase situational awareness and improve operational efficiency

Public-safety responders put their lives on the line every day to protect citizens from threats of all kinds. For most of us, this dedication and effort is taken for granted, as it goes largely unseen. This is because police and fire departments—and other first-responder agencies—are committed to being responsive in emergency situations while ensuring that […]

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ITEC: Walt Magnussen recaps highlights of Winter Institute, outlines future plans for event

Walt Magnussen, director of the Texas A&M University Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), provides an overview of this week’s Winter Institute, which provides a real-world environment for first responders to “experiment” with cutting-edge communications in a real-world disaster-response scenario, and outlines goals for next January’s event. The Winter Institute is conducted at the Disaster […]

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Hydronalix: Jaime Lara, Ron Cipriani demonstrate capabilities of EMILY water drone

Jaime Lara, an electrical engineer at Hydronalix, describes the functionality within the company’s Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, or EMILY, which is being piloted by Ron Cipriani, EMILY production manager. EMILY can be outfitted with a host of radio technologies and sensors to provide first responders with key data points to aid a response effort […]

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AT&T FirstNet highlights new EPTT features, future promise of MCPTT

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS—Push-to-talk services over the FirstNet system being built by AT&T already are being leveraged and more use cases are developing as the offering rapidly evolves toward a mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT)-compliant solution during the next few years, according to an AT&T FirstNet official. AT&T’s existing enhanced push-to-talk (EPTT) product—a carrier-integrated product provided by Kodiak, which […]

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Nokia: Fabricio Velez outlines key features of IMS-based NG911 proposal

Fabricio Velez, Nokia’s technololgy sales and solution-development professional for next-generation emergency services, explains how an IMS-based next-generation 911 (NG911) platform can leverage “the best of 3GPP networks and the best of the i3 architecture” as public safety seeks federal funding from Congress to help pay for the nationwide deployment of NG911.

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Corrected: RapidDeploy wins $6.6 million CalOES contract for analytics and mapping

Editor’s note: The original version of this story indicated that the CalOES contract was a three-year deal. Although the agreement calls for RapidDeploy to provide services in three different calendar years, the actual length of the agreement is slightly more than two years. IWCE’s Urgent Communications regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion. All […]

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Icom announces new satellite PTT radio on Iridium system, RoIP gateway

Icom recently announced the IC-SAT100, a handheld satellite push-to-talk (PTT) radio that leverages the Iridium satellite system to enable communications worldwide, according to a company official. Jim Backeland, executive vice president for Icom Canada and Icom America, said the IC-SAT100 will provide some unique characteristics to the PTT marketplace. “It’s a radio system, and you […]

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FirstNet board approves principles guiding future reinvestments of $15 billion into public-safety broadband system

FirstNet Authority board members today voted unanimously to approve a resolution outlining four key principles that will be followed as the board determines how best to reinvest an estimated $15 billion or more during the next two decades to fund the evolution of the FirstNet system being built and maintained by AT&T. Under the FirstNet […]

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Motorola Solutions unveils CBRS-based solution to deliver voice, data to enterprise customers

Motorola Solutions today launched MOTOTRBO Nitro, a fully managed solution that will leverage LTE technology on the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to deliver business-critical voice and broadband data solutions to enterprises. “The unique thing about Nitro is that we’re going to be using the soon-to-be-available broadband spectrum called CBRS that the FCC […]

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High-power user equipment (HPUE) can help bridge Band 14 coverage gaps in rural, in-building locations

High-power user equipment (HPUE) can improve the range, throughput and resilience of LTE signals on 700 MHz Band 14 in the U.S., and HPUE products are expected to be available later this year, an official for Assured Wireless said during a conference session at IWCE 2019 in Las Vegas. While public safety is intrigued by […]

Commentary

How 3D location can increase situational awareness and improve operational efficiency

Video

ITEC: Walt Magnussen recaps highlights of Winter Institute, outlines future plans for event

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Hydronalix: Jaime Lara, Ron Cipriani demonstrate capabilities of EMILY water drone

News

AT&T FirstNet highlights new EPTT features, future promise of MCPTT

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Nokia: Fabricio Velez outlines key features of IMS-based NG911 proposal

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Corrected: RapidDeploy wins $6.6 million CalOES contract for analytics and mapping

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Icom announces new satellite PTT radio on Iridium system, RoIP gateway

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FirstNet board approves principles guiding future reinvestments of $15 billion into public-safety broadband system

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Motorola Solutions unveils CBRS-based solution to deliver voice, data to enterprise customers

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High-power user equipment (HPUE) can help bridge Band 14 coverage gaps in rural, in-building locations

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Swatting has serious implications and shouldn’t be ignored

Reflections on recent LTE outages

Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

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