Michigan tabs Codespear for alerting, interoperabilityBy Donny Jackson Michigan State Police’s emergency management division has chosen Codespear’s software as the platform for its statewide emergency-alert communications to emergency managers and first responders, Codespear announced today... xMAX passes FCC compliance testBy Donny Jackson An FCC-compliant laboratory has determined that xG Technology’s long-range xMAX system demonstrated in November meets the FCC’s Part 15 requirements, the Florida-based start-up announced yesterday... BearCom makes portable tower, repeater availableBy Donny Jackson Dallas-based BearCom Wireless Worldwide recently announced release and delivery of its QuickSite 1000 portable emergency radio tower and the QuickSite 750 portable radio repeater... Motorola announces general availability of MotoMeshBy Donny Jackson Motorola today announced the general availability of its four-radio MotoMesh wireless broadband system and a deployment in Riviera Beach, Fla., focused on video surveillance with the purpose of helping a police department fight crime... SmartLink interoperability platform chosen by N.C. countySmartLink Radio Networks said this week that Brunswick County, N.C., has deployed its I-Network interoperability platform that the county is using to interconnect dozen of public-safety agencies in its footprint... Milwaukee chooses Midwest Fiber for Wi-Fi dealBy Donny Jackson Milwaukee Common Council members voted 14-1 this week to approve a $20 million deal with Midwest Fiber Networks to build and maintain a citywide, high-speed, wireless mesh network targeted toward the city’s consumers and enterprises, according to media reports... IEEE supports EWC’s 802.11n proposalAs expected, an IEEE task force yesterday unanimously voted in favor of the 802.11n draft standard offered last week by a joint-proposal team led by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium... 802.11n consensus sets stage for IEEE consideration next weekBy Donny Jackson A joint proposal team developing proposals for the next-generation Wi-Fi standard—802.11n—yesterday voted unanimously to adopt the specification presented by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is expected to be submitted to the IEEE next week... Motorola’s BPL solution receives UL approvalBy Donny Jackson Motorola’s Powerline LV modem this week received approval from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), meaning the vendor giant can begin shipping its broadband over power line (BPL) solution in the next month, company officials said... Panel: SCADA systems at risk for intrusion attackBy Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO—A panel of public utility executives speaking at the Homeland Security for Networked Industries conference here agreed that remote monitoring and control systems, particularly SCADA systems, are vulnerable to intrusion attacks and should be protected more vigilantly... New Orleans Wi-Fi network proves its worthBy Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO—The City of New Orleans plans to expand its Wi-Fi network after seeing how well it performed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said Chris Drake, operations manager for the city’s Emergency Operations Center... Speaker: Choose security battles wiselyBy Glenn Bischoff The hacker community is populated with “too many smart people,” who are becoming more clever and sophisticated in their tactics, according to Eric Winsborrow, vice president of product marketing for network security solutions vendor McAfee... Enhanced video surveillance systemMotorola announced that users of its Intelligent Video Surveillance and Control (iVSC) solution now are able to transmit video over wireless broadband networks via video applications developed by NICE Systems... Nova Engineering enhances mobile mesh routersNova Engineering recently announced the addition of unidirectional link detection and avoidance to its NovaRoam mobile routers... Agency joins Tucson mobile wireless data networkThe city of Tucson has purchased an upgradeable IP Series 32 private wireless data system from IPMobileNet... |
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