COVER STORY

The Need for Speed

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Since the passage of the EMS Act of 1973, emergency medical services in the U.S. have made tremendous strides in their level of sophistication and their ability to provide life-saving treatments to injured patients at remote scenes...

FEATURES

Almost ready for prime time

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

After years of being limited to debates regarding the long-term future of communications, software-defined radio and cognitive radio have become factors...

The most important tool

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jay M. Jacobsmeyer, P.E.

At its most basic level, the spectrum analyzer is a frequency-selective voltmeter calibrated to display the rms value of a sine wave. The most familiar...

Just the beginning

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By James Careless

Since the 9/11 attacks, federal lawmakers have bemoaned the lack of interoperable communications between public-safety agencies that may need to coordinate efforts when large-scale incidents occur....

Get into the pool

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Mark Vitosh

Interoperable communications can be made easier through the use of frequencies set aside by the FCC...

FIRST WORD

A worthy cause

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Glenn Bischoff, glenn.bischoff@penton.com

A will is something that should be in place well before it is needed, if for no other reason than the sake of those left behind....

DISPATCHES

Satellite Providers, Qualcomm to Build Integrated Chipset

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Cellular handsets capable of also acting as satellite phones could be available in the next three years...

FCC hints at changes to D Block rules

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Six months after failing to attract a qualifying bid for the 10 MHz D Block in the 700 MHz band, FCC officials last month proposed multiple changes in rules governing the spectrum...

xG Rolls Out Mobile VOIP Handsets

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Florida-based startup xG Technology recently announced its completion of the manual assembly for its TX60 handsets by Cambridge Consultants...

Firetide Announces Airport Deployment

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM

The Page (Ariz.) Municipal Airport installed a wireless mesh network that supports video surveillance and wireless access to police records from remote locations....

IPS Gets $2.8 Million From NYC Police

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Integrated Parking Solutions received an additional $2.8 million contract from the New York City Police Department....

M/A-COM required to fix New York state network this month

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Deemed by the state of New York as being in default on its $2 billion contract to build a statewide LMR network, Tyco Electronics M/A-COM president Chuck Dougherty has vowed that his company will fix problems in the first phase of the network...

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Before the storm

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brendan Malloy

In the world of emergency communications, there are hundreds of vendors, each offering powerful solutions to help first responders and emergency operations centers communicate...

GEAR

Video analytics ID people, objects

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Video surveillance has become commonplace in security and public-safety circles, but the software used to manage data must be smart....

IP alerting system keeps fire stations connected

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Zetron has unveiled an IP-based fire station alerting system developed for municipalities that use IP links to connect a central command center to fire stations...

WEBSITE SHOWCASE

Web Site Showcase: October 2008

Oct 1, 2008 3:55 PM

FINAL WORD

A long journey ends

Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Alan Tilles

It was just over 20 years ago that the FCC issued a Petition for Special Relief filed by the broadcast television industry, effectively putting a stop to the FCC's proceeding to provide more spectrum sharing between UHF television stations and land mobile systems....