Wireless Networks

Pennsylvania transit authority awards $17.8 million contract

Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Transportation Management Systems (TMS) division has been awarded a $17.8 million contract by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to provide and manage communications for the Philadelphia …

IBM installs wireless network

IBM is designing and installing a wireless network at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Access points placed throughout the hospital will support data transfer to medical practitioners’ hand-held devices, according to the company. …

Georgia officials choose mobile cell sites

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency chose Verizon Wireless to supply cells on wheels (COWs) to its operation command center at Wayne County Airport in Jessup, Ga. COWs are self-contained, mobile cell sites designed for short-term communications, …

California county upgrades communications

Houston, Texas-based Tait Radio Communications will upgrade the Tait P25 digital network solution currently used for Stanislaus County, Calif.’s, regional communications systems that serve police, fire and emergency medical departments. Tait also will …

Oak Brook company to provide public-safety broadband network

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Federal Signal Corp. and the city of Pocatello, Idaho, announced plans to deploy an interoperable communications platform that includes a 4.9 GHz public-safety broadband wireless network to deliver mission critical emergency …

Mesh network installed in Macon, Ga.

The city of Macon, Ga., has installed Motorola’s MOTOMESH product for wireless broadband access throughout the municipality. The mesh network will provide wireless access using the 2.4 GHz frequency band for residents and municipal workers and wireless …

Army tests WiBRO

Samsung and the U.S. Army’s CERDEC information technologies and integrated services center will evaluate WiBRO, the South Korean version of Mobile WiMAX—also known as 802.16e—at the CERDEC facility located at Ft. Dix, N.J. Tests will focus on leveraging …

Sprint Nextel continues to lose iDEN customers

Sprint Nextel lost more than 700,000 traditional iDEN customers while registering a $211 million loss during the first quarter, offsetting growth in other sectors of the wireless carrier’s business, corporate officials said today during the company’s earnings conference call

Wireless-analysis tool targets rogue devices

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Network Chemistry today unveiled its RFprotect Mobile wireless-analysis tool with global positioning system, or GPS, capabilities. The automated solution lets enterprises and government organizations track rouge devices residing …

Meru launches 802.11n product suite

Sunnyvale, Calif-.based Meru Networks unveiled its first enterprise offerings based on the IEEE 802.11n draft specifications. The offerings include dual-radio 802.11 a/b/g/n/ access points and a multi-gigabit, five-blade chassis controller for up to …

Pennsylvania transit authority awards $17.8 million contract

IBM installs wireless network

Georgia officials choose mobile cell sites

California county upgrades communications

Oak Brook company to provide public-safety broadband network

Mesh network installed in Macon, Ga.

Army tests WiBRO

Sprint Nextel continues to lose iDEN customers

Wireless-analysis tool targets rogue devices

Meru launches 802.11n product suite

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