The International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) brings users from security, utilities, transportation, construction, education, and Public Safety together to talk radios.
It runs Feb 27-29, in Las Vegas and features training sessions, 350 exhibitors and a variety of speakers.
Mobile Radio Technology magazine, which sponsors the conference, covers the field. Their article on the current status of Nextel’s iDEN network is instructive:
Sprint looks to spend another $7 billion this year on Direct Connect services, but primarily on enabling P2T services over its CDMA EV-DO network. In 2006, Sprint announced an agreement to use Qualcomm’s QChat solution to deliver a CDMA-based P2T solution this year that will offer similar performance to — and ultimately interoperate with — its legacy iDEN-based service.Sprint already offers dual-mode devices that enable push-to-talk on iDEN and higher-speed data services on the CDMA networks, but the majority of public-safety users strictly use the iDEN network.
Meanwhile, the number of new bids in the 700 MHz auction has dropped to around 30, reports RCR News. The 34 new bids in round 108 this morning were scattered across the A, B and E Blocks.
According to RCR News, today’s new bids pushed the auction’s total provisional winning bids to $19.527 billion, far above the $10 to $15 billion forecasters expected. But activity on many of the auction’s big prizes, including the nationwide commercial-public safety D Block and the open-access C Block, appear to have ended.
The Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) uses Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) software and hardware.
IRLP links amateur radio repeater sites or simplex stations via the internet. IRLP operates a worldwide network of dedicated servers and nodes offering worldwide voice communications between hundreds of cities and towns.
Here’s another approach for delivering emergency information after a Tsunami:
Satphone repeaters, Inmarsat BGAN terminals or HughesNet terminals, every 20-30 miles down the West Coast, feed co-located, solar-powered 5.8 Ghz WiMAX basestations. The WiMAX basestations each feed a dozen Wi-Fi-enabled outdoor Kiosks for tourists — and first responders.
Gilat Satellite Networks is distributing Airspan’s WiMAX solutions. Their Spacenet division provides managed services in North America through its Connexstar brand and for consumers through its StarBand service.
Simple. Cheap. Cost/effective. Don’t depend on state or federal government to make this happen.
Make it your business.
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