by ECC Editor | Jan 24, 2020 | Comm Center News
Early this week, 9 counties in Southeastern Minnesota were affected by a 9-1-1 outage. The counties affected were: Rice, Steele, Goodhue, Dodge, Freeborn, Mower, Wabasha, Winona, and Olmsted. A press release from the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office states that the outage is now being investigated by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Emergency Communication Network.
Goodhue County Sheriff Marty Kelly posted the release to the Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 22, 2020 | Articles, Report
EIN News/ — Dublin, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “The Private LTE & 5G Network Ecosystem: 2020 – 2030 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts” report from SNS Telecom & IT has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
This report presents an in-depth assessment of the private LTE and 5G network ecosystem, including market drivers, challenges, enabling technologies, vertical market opportunities, applications, key trends, standardization, spectrum availability/allocation, regulatory landscape, deployment case studies, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 22, 2020 | Articles
For a wireless network that will be needed to enable the cities of the future, 5G has made a relatively quiet debut in Pittsburgh.
That’s probably because, for now, you won’t notice a difference until you drop about $1,300 on a 5G-compatible phone.
AT&T rolled out its fifth-generation network in Pittsburgh in December, one of the first phases of a nationwide plan, but the benefits are only available to a small number of users … READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – Seconds after an earthquake shook Hutchinson on Sunday, phones at the Reno County 911 center started ringing off the hook.
Jessica Lynch, Director of Reno County Emergency Communications Center, says she always wants people to call 911 if they absolutely need to but after the earthquake, almost all of the calls were not emergencies.
“We took approximately 150 calls,” says Lynch. “The first 100 came within the first 10 minutes… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 21, 2020 | Articles
SecuLore Solutions, an Odenton, MD-based cybersecurity company, earned a $750,000 grant to improve and increase the resiliency of the nation’s emergency communications infrastructure, including Next Generation 911 (NG911) technologies.
“Our nation’s emergency communications network is at risk to escalating cyber-attacks,” said Vincent Sritapan, program manager at Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology…READ MORE
