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USFS’ Pacific Northwest Region Rolls Out Telex Equipment

July 10, 2020 | Comments

With coverage responsibility for more than 27 million acres of public land in the rugged Pacific Northwest, Region 6 of the U.S. Forest Service places a premium on reliability in its communications equipment. The vast majority of Region 6 dispatch centers use Telex hardware and software equipment.

NPSTC Releases MCPTT Consoles Report

July 10, 2020 | Comments

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) released a new report on mission-critical push to talk (MCPTT) technology and consoles.

July 09, 2020 | Comments

The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) plans to equip its first responders with 6,000 TETRA two-way pagers from Motorola Solutions. The THW is responsible for technical-logistic operations of the German federal government.

July 09, 2020 | Comments

Airbus was selected to provide Jinan airport in China with mission-critical products and solutions to upgrade the existing Airbus TETRA network in place. The new system will allow airport personnel to embrace the benefits of a hybrid solution using TETRA and LTE technologies.

July 07, 2020 | Comments

As mandated by Congress, the FCC released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to auction the T-band 470 – 512 MHz spectrum. The notice outlines licensing and operating rules, along with a band plan and technical rules, although the NPRM seeks comments on many issues such as where T-band licensees might move and what to do about industrial/business (I/B) licensees also operating in the spectrum.

July 07, 2020 | Comments

Hytera introduced a carrier-integrated mission-critical version of its push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) broadband solution. The HyTalk MC end-to-end solution supports Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mission-critical PTT (MCPTT), mission-critical data (MCData) and mission-critical video (MCVideo) services for mission- and business-critical communications users.

July 07, 2020 | Comments

To help agencies determine public-safety communications solutions that strike the balance between cost and value, federal groups released a guide that compiles recommendations, best practices and considerations for public-safety agencies to evaluate equipment cost effectiveness.

June 30, 2020 | Comments

The Jefferson City (Missouri) Police Department went live with Tyler Technologies’ New World Enterprise CAD. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the entire implementation, including two weeks of CAD training, was done remotely by Tyler’s team.

June 30, 2020 | Comments

A field equipment shelter fitted with fault-tolerant cooling is ensuring the reliability of a wireless communications link that connects the instrumentation on a new gas pipeline crossing a Middle Eastern desert to the remote control room. Fabricated from tough glassfiber-reinforced polyester (GRP) materials, the shelter houses a TETRA base station powered by solar panels to function reliably in an off-grid location some 50 kilometers from the nearest town.

June 30, 2020 | Comments

Etherstack entered a global agreement with Samsung Electronics to deliver next-generation mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) over LTE solutions to telecommunications carriers and governments across the globe, using Etherstack’s digital LMR softswitching technologies embedded within Samsung’s network solutions.