Grid approach could end location challenges

Nov 19, 2008 10:30 AM, By Lynnette Luna

The public-safety community always seems to learn new lessons when it responds to disasters...

Sprint supports California disaster drill

Nov 18, 2008 10:50 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Sprint last week participated in the Los Angeles-based Golden Guardian effort, a state-sponsored emergency-preparedness exercise....

Intrado-IPC Positron deal expected to close this quarter

Nov 18, 2008 10:04 AM, By Donny Jackson

Federal regulators last week approved the merger of West’s Intrado and IPC Systems’ command systems segment—better known as Positron Public Safety Systems...

APCO seeks comments on alarm-to-PSAP data standard

Nov 13, 2008 12:14 PM, By Donny Jackson

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) this week announced it is seeking comments on a candidate American National Standard that is designed to enable efficient data exchange between alarm-monitoring companies and public-safety answering points (PSAPs)....

Reporter's notebook - November 13, 2008

Nov 13, 2008 10:23 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

Raytheon unveiled a spread-spectrum radio that provides coverage without infrastructure such as base stations or repeaters...

MSV promises satellite changes

Nov 12, 2008 12:13 PM, By Lynnette Luna

The mobile satellite services, or MSS, industry has entered a resurrection period as new regulations and satellite capabilities enable companies to offer ubiquitous voice and high-speed data services to government, enterprises and consumers—without the clunky handsets of the past....

Meru Networks OS partitions client devices

Nov 12, 2008 11:06 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Meru Networks this week unveiled its virtual-cell architecture, which gives every client device accessing the wireless LAN its own unique identifier that stays with it wherever it moves within the network...

San Francisco believes in gunshot-location technology

Nov 12, 2008 9:43 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

One of the problems faced by the law-enforcement community is that when a firearm is discharged, many times the incident is never reported....

Motorola demonstrates 700 MHz broadband system

Nov 11, 2008 1:27 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

Motorola this week is demonstrating public-safety wireless broadband applications over an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM)-based, 700 MHz system...

Major city police chiefs say 'no'--for now--t o 700 MHz network

Nov 11, 2008 1:18 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

Police chiefs from 35 major cities support a resolution that calls for a postponement of the re-auction of the 700 MHz D Block until a consensus is reached within the public-safety sector...

FCC establishes search engine for interleaved-channel availability

Nov 11, 2008 9:45 AM, By Donny Jackson

Public-safety agencies and critical-infrastructure entities wanting to apply for spectrum released by Sprint Nextel through the 800 MHz rebanding process can access information on available channels through an FCC search engine that was announced last week....

FCC OKs unlicensed use of TV white spaces

Nov 6, 2008 11:37 AM, By Donny Jackson

FCC commissioners Tuesday voted to open the spectral white spaces between broadcast television channels for unlicensed use by devices utilizing geo-location solutions as the foundation for avoiding interference with incumbent users in the band....

Reporter's Notebook

Nov 6, 2008 11:12 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

The state of New York began its internal systems-integration testing of the first phase of the statewide wireless network (SWN) being built by Tyco Electronics M/A-COM...

ADC debuts outdoor distributed antenna system

Nov 6, 2008 10:07 AM, By Glenn Bischoff

ADC introduced the FlexWave Prism outdoor distributed antenna system that is designed to support events in large venues....

Sprint has a change of heart concerning iDEN

Nov 5, 2008 2:23 PM, By Lynnette Luna

After recently admitting that it was peddling its struggling iDEN business, Sprint Nextel reversed course and announced it would instead hold on to the business...

Saab chooses Green Hills OS for UAV

Nov 4, 2008 2:05 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Green Hills Software announced that Saab is using its Integrity operating system to control its Skeldar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

FCC sets interleaved rules for Sprint Nextel

Nov 4, 2008 1:47 PM, By Donny Jackson

The FCC last week approved an order that requires Sprint Nextel to vacate most of its 800 MHz interleaved channels in stages...

3n announces new university customers for alert service

Oct 30, 2008 10:32 AM, By Donny Jackson

Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Alberta have selected the 3n InstaCom Campus Alert system to help deliver multimode alert notifications throughout the campus during critical incidents...

Kapsch deploys wireless roadside system in New York

Oct 30, 2008 9:20 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Kapsch TrafficCom recently installed a roadside sensor systems that uses 5.9 GHz Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) throughout Manhattan and along the Long Island Expressway...

Aruba unveils Wi-Fi open development labs

Oct 29, 2008 2:22 PM, By Lynnette Luna

WLAN vendor Aruba Networks publicly launched an open development lab designed to promote research on Wi-Fi networks and the all-wireless workplace, and accelerate the pace of research on wireless networks and applications...