Wireless Networks

Mayday!

More than 300 New York City firefighters lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Families of 12 of those firefighters

Like a flash, D.C. goes broadband

The District of Columbia announced Motorola and Flarion Technologies will build a high-speed wireless broadband data network a deal city officials hope

Some cities are in a fine mesh

Now that we’re all wrapped up in the Net, some developers want to teach us another metaphor of omnidirectional connectivity: the mesh. Proponents of meshing

Public Safety Rethinks the Future

Recent moves by some European public-safety agencies to study commercial wireless technology as an alternative to the TETRA (terrestrial trunked radio)

Interop draws the smart money

SmartLink Radio Networks landed a $12 million round of venture funding last month, a significant win that will let the company more than double the size

Predicting coverage area is critical

Early in the evolution of land mobile radio, it was discovered that the higher the base-station antenna, the greater the radio coverage area. This sent

NEWS BRIEFS

E911 Institute honors individuals The E911 Institute recently honored New York State Assemblyman David Koon, Kristy Wikliff of Southlake, Texas, and Jim

Jordanian company to build iDEN network

Amman, Jordan-based New Generation Telecommunications will build a $49 million nationwide radio dispatch and cellular telecommunications network utilizing

Cincinnati airport upgrades wireless notification system

Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport has deployed a wireless notification system jointly developed by Emergin and Nextel Communications

Nextel posts $1.5 billion profit for 2003

Nextel CommunicationsNextel Communications announced it recorded net income of $1.54 billion for fiscal 2003—$1.41 per share—an 11% gain over the previous

Mayday!

Like a flash, D.C. goes broadband

Some cities are in a fine mesh

Public Safety Rethinks the Future

Interop draws the smart money

Predicting coverage area is critical

NEWS BRIEFS

Jordanian company to build iDEN network

Cincinnati airport upgrades wireless notification system

Nextel posts $1.5 billion profit for 2003

Commentary

LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications

FirstNet success means no hypothetical ‘shots’ need to be fired, Swenson says

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

Twitter

Newscan: On front lines, communications breakdowns prove costly for Ukraine dlvr.it/ST7fnC

China-backed APT pwns building-automation systems with ProxyLogon dlvr.it/ST6q7m

Samsung fills its 2G hole in new challenge to Ericsson and Nokia dlvr.it/ST6hBK

Militarized drone swarms coming dlvr.it/ST6dNz

Take American City & County’s budgeting survey dlvr.it/ST6Yxb

Final cases made about Airwave, ESN, before CMA issues provisional decision on Motorola Solutions dlvr.it/ST4Q6X

Polaris Wireless: Manlio Allegra talks 911 Z-axis tech, future IoT opportunities dlvr.it/ST1384

Biden’s net-neutrality strategy looks doomed dlvr.it/SSyQ7d