Spectrum licensing
16 November, 2010
The ACMA has completed licensing for spectrum for mobile telecommunications services at more than 2000 sites throughout regional and remote Australia.
DMR - is it the road to nowhere?
15 November, 2010 by David Cox, operations director, Pacific Wireless Communications | Supplied by: Pacific Wireless Communications Pty Ltd
Just sometimes, the market experts can urge the market to follow an ideal which may just take a few over the cliff of reason.
Fire control at Perth airport
27 September, 2010
C4i has brought into service the ninth of 20 fire control centre SwitchplusIP systems being delivered to Aviation Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) of Airservices Australia.
Wavenis Open Standard Alliance
30 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Clarke & Severn Electronic Solutions
The Wavenis Open Standard Alliance is an independent, non-profit, technology standards organisation that was created in 2008 to open and standardise the technology. It is also responsible for managing the Wavenis technology roadmap.
Airborne comms now approved
20 August, 2010
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has finalised radiocommunications licensing arrangements to facilitate mobile communication services on aircraft.
Wired & Wireless mini-PACCS on-site man-down system
17 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Wired & Wireless Solutions International
The mini-PACCS on-site man-down system is designed for people working alone in industrial, healthcare, aged care, security and high-risk facilities.
Australian Satellite Services ReadyConnect emergency response solution
17 August, 2010 | Supplied by: Australian Satellite Communications
Australian Satellite Communications and Cobham SATCOM have launched ReadyConnect, a portable, quick-deploy emergency response solution.
Radio system integrates P25
12 July, 2010
With the installation of Zetron’s series 4000 dispatch system and its series 3300 VoIP call-taking system, the emergency communication centre in Morgan County, West Virginia, is now equipped to deal with current and upcoming changes in public-safety technology.
Wide-ranging topics at TETRA congress
22 June, 2010
TETRA is a radio system that is being widely used around the world in all sorts of applications. An opportunity to talk about these applications and the technology involved, and to display some of the latest equipment, was at the TETRA World Congress in Singapore.
Britain sets the benchmark for Australasia
30 March, 2010 by Paul Isaacs, Airwave Solutions Australia**
The primary remit of public safety communications is to provide a safe and secure environment to allow people to go about their daily business. This goal is not something that changes with the country, although the approaches taken and solutions required will differ as the geographical area and population density varies from one market to another.
Fleetcoms upgrading
18 February, 2010
Telstra is upgrading its Fleetcoms trunked network - an MPT 1327 network - and replacing the existing switching infrastructure with new Tait nodes.
First GRN for India is a TETRA system
05 February, 2010
India's first exclusive government radio network will provide quick and secure communications between government agencies such as the police, fire service, hospitals, public works departments and the city corporation during this year of the Commonwealth Games.
US plans 700 MHz demo network
18 January, 2010
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the US have announced plans to create a demonstration broadband communications network for the nation’s emergency services agencies using a portion of the radiofrequency spectrum freed up by the recent transition of US broadcast television from analog to digital.
Fire control system at Coolangatta
18 January, 2010
C4i has commissioned into service the first of 20 fire control centre switchplus systems being delivered to Aviation Rescue & Fire Fighting of Airservices Australia.
VoIP may solve problems of interoperability - Part 1
02 December, 2009 | Supplied by: Cisco
Lack of interoperability in radio communications is an urgent problem affecting all levels of government and it not only concerns Australia as this article reveals. Although US based, a lot of the problems discussed here also apply to this country.
