StarChase partners with Australian systems integrator 

StarChase signed a $1.2 million contract with Metal Storm Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia, to serve as the systems integrator for the commercialization of...

Pa. state police tests statewide system 

By Mary Rose Roberts

The Pennsylvania State Police's Lancaster barracks started a pilot program to test a new, statewide public-safety radio system to give troopers, first...

U.S. Army implements SWLAN radio system 

General Dynamics C4 Systems' secure wireless local area network (SWLAN) AN/VRC-106 radios have been installed in the U.S. Army's Stryker Brigade Combat...

Va. planning district commission adopts digital network solution 

The Hampton Roads (Va.) Planning District Commission chose Alcatel to deliver its new, federally funded, digital communications network designed to enhance...

Midwestern hospital uses WLAN for secure, mobile data access 

Okla.-based Duncan Regional Hospital chose Trapeze Networks' WLAN Mobility System for its campuswide wireless installation. The WLAN lets hospital employees...

Breaking the Mold 

By Donny Jackson

No telecom buzzword has been used or overused as much during the last decade as Whether it's voice and data, wireline and wireless, or consumer and enterprise,...

4.9 GHz solutions show promise 

BY LYNNETTE LUNA

Today, 4.9 GHz public-safety wireless networks finally have moved away from theoretical deployments to the real thing, paving the way for endless applications,...

Software-defined radio gets report card 

BY JAMES CARELESS

Right now, there are about 750,000 radios in use by the combined branches of the U.S. military. Many of these radios are old, and most aren't interoperable...

CalAmp to acquire DataRadio 

CalAmp announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DataRadio, a Canadian supplier of wireless data products and systems for mission-critical...

Initiative targets news ways to distribute AMBER alerts 

Under a nationwide initiative, Qualcomm's OmniTRACS mobile communications system will redistribute AMBER alerts from the National Center for Missing &...

Homeland Security exercise uses PacketHop solution 

Mobile mesh software provider PacketHop recently announced that its Aware application suite was used at the Long Beach, Calif., airport during a Homeland...

Next-generation fleet-tracker system adds Motorola G20 modules 

Networkcar announced that it entered into an agreement to add Motorola's G20 wireless module to the next-generation of its GPRS-based Networkfleet wireless,...

California university goes wireless 

Sensoria deployed its EnRoute500 dual-radio, outdoor wireless mesh routers and accompanying systems to deliver wireless broadband access throughout the...

Illinois bill mandates miner wireless communications 

A bill to protect trapped miners, and rescuers responding to such incidents recently won unanimous approval in the Illinois House and is now heading to...

Hotel chain invests in wireless 

San Diego-based Barney Hospitality Group purchased Helium Networks' Wireless Recon system for wireless connectivity throughout its hotel properties. The...