WiFi Wireless introduces high-data-rate solution 

Tigard, Ore.-based WiFi Wireless recently announced it has developed mobile wireless data network based on the 802.22 standard that provides download data rates ranging from 200 kb/s to 1.53 Mb/s...

Nextel and Motorola unveil off-network P2T solution 

Nextel and Motorola recently announced the introduction of Direct Talk, a back-up walkie-talkie service that Nextel customers can use when they are outside the carrier’s coverage areas...

Florida agency to deploy Motorola IP-based interop solution 

Florida police radio system goes live statewide 

The Florida Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) is now operating statewide, according to M/A-COM...

City of Providence to install new CAD system 

Troy, Mich.-based New World Systems said it has been awarded a $4.5 million contract from the City of Providence, R.I., to deploy its Windows-based Aegis/MSP public-safety software and related services...

Navy deploys Northrop Grumman 911 CAD system 

The U.S. Navy has deployed a new 911 computer-aided dispatch system at its Regional Operations Command and Control Center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, according to manufacturer Northrop Grumman...

K.C. police deploy Compudyne CAD system 

The Kansas City (Mo.) Police Department recently announced it has deployed a computer-aided dispatch system developed by Compudyne’s Tiburon division...

DOD radio system allegedly overpowers garage-door openers 

A two-way radio system is being deployed by the Department of Defense at military bases across the country that allegedly is jamming garage-door openers in the affected area, according to the Chicago Sun-Times...

Chicago fire department field-tests handhelds 

The Chicago Fire Department currently is field-testing handheld mobile computers that are capable of providing incident commanders with layouts and floor plans of buildings and hazardous materials sites while in route to a scene, the Chicago Sun-Times reported...

Nextel, Zetron combine on interoperability solution 

Nextel and Zetron recently announced a solution that enables dispatchers using Zetron’s Series 4000 radio dispatch console to connect users of private land mobile radio systems to users of Nextel’s nationwide Direct Connect or Group Connect push-to-talk services...

IPMobileNet launches Wi-Fi backhaul system 

IPMobileNet said yesterday that it had launched IP XpressNet, an 801.11-based mesh network that provides backhaul and mobile data user access to LANs, WANs and other IP-based networks...

Digital Dispatch adds public data network support to dispatch software 

Digital Dispatch Systems this week announced the launch of PathFinder 3.05, the latest version of its dispatch software suite that now provides support for public data networks...

Report: Minnesota county plans new radio dispatch center 

The Ramsey County (Minn.) Board plans to build a new radio dispatch center at a cost of about $2.5 million, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported...

Report: Army awards Harris contracts exceeding $30 million 

Harris Corp. has won contracts from the U.S. Army worth more than $30 million to deliver its AN/PRC-117F man-pack and vehicular multi-band, multi-mission radios, the Rochester (N.Y.) Business Journal reported...

Florida airport deploys wide-area Wi-Fi network 

Systems integrator TEACO has installed a wide-area Wi-Fi network developed by BelAir Networks at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Fla...