The long road ahead
18/04/2018(Sponsored content) This year’s roundtable at IWCE focused on how the US LMR market will adapt once FirstNet and mission-critical LTE mature and are adopted by many organisations
Narrowband
Spoilt for choice: alerting options for critical users
18/04/2018Richard Martin reviews the state of paging in critical communications and compares the different paging and alerting options available to operators and end-users
Keeping your cool
18/04/2018Wearable sensors hold much promise as a way to better manage first-responders’ health and comfort while working in hot or dangerous environments. Sam Fenwick looks at what the technology has to offer
Taking off in Brazil
28/03/2018São Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport is showing the way for mission-critical radio communications in Brazil. Gilson Pozzati, of DAMM Cellular, talks to Richard Lambley
ISI: Making the connection
02/03/2018Richard Martin reviews progress on Inter System Interoperability and draws some conclusions on best practice for future projects
Mexico’s melting pot
02/03/2018Unlike many countries, Mexico’s critical communications market is home to a number of different technologies, all jostling for supremacy. Sam Fenwick has the details
The Best of Two Worlds: Hytera’s convergence LTE-TETRA-solution secures pope’s visit in Peru
02/03/2018(Advertisement feature) The innovative convergence LTE-TETRA-solution from Hytera secured the visit of Pope Francis to South America in Peru in January
On high alert
07/02/2018(Advertisement feature) A dedicated emergency paging network assures super-reliable callouts at affordable cost
Return of a trusted brand
07/02/2018(Advertisment feature) New pagers by Swissphone will bring back reliable paging in the Netherlands
Analogue radios in an IP World
07/02/2018(Advertisement feature) TC Communications discusses how leased line users affected by ageing copper networks can embrace the new world of IP without any loss of audio quality
Will the TETRA radio turn into a smartphone?
06/02/2018TETRA radio manufacturers are divided on whether to make their devices more like smartphones or stick with traditional form factors. Richard Martin weighs up the pros and cons of each approach
The Critical Network of Things’ backbone
06/02/2018Brian Back, founder and CEO of Radio Data Networks, discusses his concerns about the use of IoT on third-party carriers for mission-critical applications, and TETRA as a backbone for remote ...
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P25: Here to stay
06/02/2018The P25 two-way radio standard is more than 25 years old but continues to be widely used by public safety agencies, particularly in the USA. James Atkinson takes a look at its current development ...
Critical comms in the Mediterranean: sun, sand and strife
06/02/2018The Mediterranean, hard-hit by the financial crisis, is starting to look to the future when it comes to its networks, and while that doesn’t necessarily mean LTE, there are opportunities for TETRA, ...
Flexibility breeds resilience
04/12/2017(Advertisement feature) DAMM’s decentralised network architecture enables mission-critical networks to grow quickly, while keeping total cost of ownership to a minimum
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