Wireless Networks

A painful lesson

When telecommunications experts arrived in Haiti to aid the earthquake-recovery effort, they found unimaginable devastation. The event provides a stark reminder of why disaster-communications planning and resources are vitally important — something that every government entity should heed, because one never knows when and where disaster will strike.

Upgraded location platform deals with flood of location queries on operator networks

Andrew Solutions announced it has upgraded its GeoLENs mobile location center (MLC) to deal with the growing number of location queries in both the commercial-location-services and E-911 worlds.

Utilities’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities result from system integrity, not terrorism

Industrial Defender’s John Shaw said cybersecurity strategies should focus on deploying best practices and putting in efficient change control procedures to improve reliability.

Utilities need scalable networks for future applications, expert says

Rick Schmidt, a vice president at Power System Engineering, said there currently is a significant demand for utilities to provide backhaul for AMI infrastructure. However, providing adequate coverage and capacity is a challenge because networks need to support 500 kb of data throughput to support applications.

Ubidyne’s game changer

The bottom line: Capex can be cut by one-third and operating costs can be reduced by half, the company’s CEO said.

In-house expertise best to dispatch wildland firefighters

When an incident occurs in the area’s high-desert grassland, mountainous regions and rural communities, such in-the-field knowledge improves responses time because dispatchers are trained in firefighting tactics, NIMS protocols and terrain.

Aruba Networks targets business outdoors

Aruba Networks announced it is moving enterprise Wi-Fi outdoors with the $27 million acquisition of outdoor mesh vendor Azalea Networks, whose gear was chosen to provide wireless broadband access over more than 30 miles for the Olympic games.

Clearwire continues posturing toward LTE

During its first-quarter conference call last week, Clearwire once again talked up the possibility of flipping its WiMAX network to LTE, announcing that it changed the terms of an agreement it has with WiMAX evangelist and Clearwire investor Intel that once locked the operator into using WiMAX through Nov. 28, 2011.

Emergency fire dispatch pays off, but it’s still a tough sell

Speakers participating in the recent National Academies of Emergency Dispatch conference extolled the virtues of the protocol-based approach to 911 telecommunicating, but cautioned that communications officials hoping to sell fire-service administrators on EFD had better do their homework.

Tecore offers jamming alternative for correctional facilities

The solution that is designed to stop the contraband cell-phone problem without requiring changes to existing laws and regulations.

A painful lesson

Upgraded location platform deals with flood of location queries on operator networks

Utilities’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities result from system integrity, not terrorism

Utilities need scalable networks for future applications, expert says

Ubidyne’s game changer

In-house expertise best to dispatch wildland firefighters

Aruba Networks targets business outdoors

Clearwire continues posturing toward LTE

Emergency fire dispatch pays off, but it’s still a tough sell

Tecore offers jamming alternative for correctional facilities

Commentary

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