Wireless Networks

Airaya selects Atheros chips for 4.9 GHz products

Airaya has chosen Atheros Communications’ wireless LAN chipset technology to be used in its public-safety series of WirelessGRID bridges for wireless multipoint and backhaul networks in the 4.9 GHz band for homeland security and public safety, Atheros announced today

SDR catches public safety’s attention

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Tait names new president

Tait North America has appointed William P. Fredrickson as its president

EADS to purchase Nokia’s TETRA assets

EADS announced it plans to acquire Nokia’s TETRA assets

ROADS LESS TRAVELED

The land mobile radio industry is healthy, vibrant and ready to enter a data-centric world driven by IP technologies. So say senior executives at major vendors to the public-safety and government sectors

Trade associations change face of LMR

The merger of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association with the Industrial Telecommunications Association, which created the Enterprise Wireless

Colorado county joins state system

Alamosa County recently became the first of six counties to tap into Colorado’s statewide 800 MHz digital trunked radio system

Kentucky agency upgrades two-way radio system

The Kentucky Department of Vehicle Enforcement (KVE) is replacing its 1950s two-way radio system

Vendor harmony is sweet music

You may have read in MRT that I recently became president and chief operating officer of EFJohnson

First responder among Nextel contest winners

Nextel Communications said Thomas Murray of Tinley Park, Ill., won first prize, worth $1000, in the company’s Wireless Winners contest

Airaya selects Atheros chips for 4.9 GHz products

SDR catches public safety’s attention

Tait names new president

EADS to purchase Nokia’s TETRA assets

ROADS LESS TRAVELED

Trade associations change face of LMR

Colorado county joins state system

Kentucky agency upgrades two-way radio system

Vendor harmony is sweet music

First responder among Nextel contest winners

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