Cover Story

Turning the corner

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, An MRT Staff Report

Without question, 2008 will be the year of answers for the urgent-communications sector, as the future for key technologies, initiatives, entities and players finally will crystallize...

Why TDMA makes sense for P25

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By W. Roy McClellan III, P.E.

For starters, it will greatly ease the FCC-mandated narrowband migration...

Features

New approaches to an old problem

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dave Plank

Using consumer technologies to improve in-building coverage...

Through the looking glass

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Jim Barthold

Wireless video gives emergency room doctors a vital head start on treatment...

A losing proposition

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Harold Kinley

How RF attenuation on the transmission line affects the transmitter...

A leap of faith

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Lynnette Luna

Without a final standard, early adopters of 802.11n technology face risks...

Time is money

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Rob Barden

Effective testing to isolate problems can save you both...

First Word

Experience necessary

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

One of the toughest things to do in life is find your first job. I'm not talking about flipping burgers at some fast-food emporium or stocking shelves at the local supermarket...

News

700 MHz broadband effort gains clarity

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson & Glenn Bischoff

PSST named as public-safety licensee, outlines sector's expectations...

Texas officials upgrade public-safety software

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

CompuDyne Corp. of Annapolis, Md., announced that its Tiburon Inc. subsidiary has been awarded a $2 million contract by Travis County, Texas...

Meru to test, certify WLAN video-surveillance products

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Meru Networks announced its Video Unplugged Program, a video over wireless LAN partner program that tests and certifies multivendor video products...

Sprint Nextel appeals rebanding dates

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson & Glenn Bischoff

Carrier considers FCC's order a contract, not a ruling...

Company provides free communications following California wildfires

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

San Diego-based Solectek Corp., a manufacturer of wireless broadband transmission equipment, helped restore communication networks that were damaged by recent fires in Dan Diego...

Skyport, Cisco team on emergency communications

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

SkyPort Global Communications signed a contract to provide satellite connectivity to Cisco's Emergency Response Networks service...

RFID system to be tested for hazmat management

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Alanco Technologies' TSI PRISM subsidiary has been awarded a $100,000 pilot contract ...

Burbank utility deploys Wi-Fi-enabled meters from SmartSynch

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Municipally owned Burbank Water and Power in Burbank, Calif., has started deployment of the world's first Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters ...

Marines invest in portable satellite-communications

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected satellite and wireless communications networks provider DataPath to provide an ultra-portable satellite communications solution...

MSV rolls out mutual-aid talk groups

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Mobile Satellite Ventures of Reston, Va., will operate two mutual-aid radio talk groups on its satellite communications network...

ADC to pay $169 million for LGC Wireless

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

In-building wireless solutions provider LGC Wireless has agreed to be acquired by established telecom vendor ADC for $169 million in cash and other considerations...

Correction

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The planning funding agreement (PFA) for the reconfiguration of Milwaukee County's 800 MHz system was completed on April 30, 2007 (Many moving parts,...

View From the Top

A righteous goal is within reach

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Morgan O'Brien

Almost any description of the FCC's recent order setting forth plans for a wireless broadband public-safety network will invoke the term "unprecedented"...

First Response

FCC chief: Better days lie just ahead

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Charles Werner

I recently spoke with Derek Poarch, chief of the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, who made it clear that he believes it is wholly unproductive to place blame regarding the current state of the 800 MHz reconfiguration project...

In The Field

Don't mess with Mother Nature

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Matt Gauvin

A lightning strike is inevitable - here's what to do before it happens...

Products

JPS partners on emergency alerts

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mark Rose Roberts

Invizeon solution now will be marketed to LMR sector...

Emulator tests RF interference

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Spirent Communications unveiled the SR5500 wireless channel emulator, a hardware and software offering that recreates radio frequency fading and interference effects...

Atheros announces power-efficient mobile Wi-Fi chip

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Semiconductor company Atheros announced it has developed a new 802.11g chip for mobile devices that will be three times more power efficient ...

Products

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM

NeoTerra released the neoNytro messaging and GPS-based automatic vehicle location software solution...

Final Word

Border rebanding plans take shape

Dec 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Alan Tilles

The Federal Communications Commission has taken the plunge and issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making that seeks to create a new 800 MHz band plan for the Canadian border regions...