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  Victor Mejia, senior product manager for Nextivity, discusses the capabilities of Cel-Fi SOLO RED, the new integrated bi-directional amplifier (BDA) solution being launched this week during the IWCE 2021 event in Las Vegas. Using only a half-watt of output power, the new BDA is designed to support

  Brad Stoddard, director of the Michigan Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS), demonstrates some of the functionality enabled by Critical Connect, the cloud-based interoperability platform from Motorola Solutions. Stoddard spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications editor Donny Jackson during

  Bryan Wiens, senior product manager of cloud services for InterTalk Critical Information Systems, outlines some of the company’s recent initiatives, including native integration with ESChat, a technology partnership with Tait Communications, and a cloud-based dispatch-as-a-service offering. Wiens

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense Inc. is offering its Tactilon Agnet platform—built on 3GPP standards for mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) and other mission-critical (MCX) services—to U.S. and Canadian customers. Herve Dussart, director of secure land communications at Airbus U.S Space & Defense

High-power-user-equipment (HPUE) provider Assured Wireless is profitable just eight months after introducing products that extend the effective range of FirstNet service, and the vendor now is unveiling coverage-testing capabilities and ‘simplifying’ its offering, according to company President and

Pryme this week will showcase its new PrymeMAX portfolio of industrial-grade accessories that are versatile enough to work with both land-mobile-radio (LMR) handsets and LTE devices that enable push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) services and will be offered at a lower price than comparable LMR

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Four months after a sophisticated cyberattack, Alaska’s health department is still recovering Biden calls for ‘united response’ to emerging-tech, cyber warfare in U.N. speech U.S. aims to thwart ransomware attacks by cracking down on crypto payments

9‑1‑1 is vulnerable to security issues, including call flood-based attacks such as TDoS, which saturate the network and prevent individuals from receiving timely service. 9‑1‑1 is vulnerable to TDoS, as a function being well known, having limited resources (especially call takers), older technology

Having adjudicated all comments, the NENA NG9‑1‑1 Operational Impacts on the PSAP Information Document is now considered “stable.” Per NENA IPR & Antitrust Policy, Section 4.5.1 “Stable Form Notice” is being issued and is shown below. 4.5 Declarations during ReviewWhen any Deliverable is in stable

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