by ECC Editor | Feb 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Greg Jurrens, senior manager of radio services and public–safety technology for Harris County (Texas) Universal Services, describes how the county has used prioritized FirstNet broadband to provide backhaul links to deployable LMR units in challenging rural environments where commercial networks can get saturated, such as along the route to the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush. Jurrens also discusses a new solution the county is using to provide in-building coverage… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 1, 2020 | Comm Center News
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Lisa Forgach, a dispatcher with the Heights Hillcrest Communications Center in Cleveland Heights, was awarded with a plaque Tuesday evening (Jan. 28) at the Richmond Heights City Council meeting for her efforts on the job on Oct. 17, 2019.
On that date, Forgach, of Parma Heights, saved the life of an elderly woman by instructing the woman’s grandson, over the… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 1, 2020 | Comm Center News
AGE, AZ (January 31, 2020):
On January 24, 2020 Page Public Safety Dispatchers Jackie Lyons and Melanie White graduated from the Western Arizona
Law Enforcement Training Academy (WALETA) Dispatch Academy in Lake Havasu City, AZ…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 1, 2020 | Comm Center News
[…] The new Monona County Public Safety Center would house the emergency operations, a training center, communications center, sheriff administrative offices, and Onawa Police Department. The current communications center is located in the basement of the law enforcement center…
by ECC Editor | Feb 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
AT&T expects to complete 80% of the contracted buildout of the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) “in the coming months,” an AT&T executive said yesterday.
AT&T Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Stankey made the statement during the company’s quarterly earning call with financial analysts while discussing company officials’ belief that AT&T will add more wireless users in 2020 than it did in 2019… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 1, 2020 | Comm Center News
| NENA invites members of the 9-1-1 community to submit nominees to represent stakeholder interest categories on the NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (Commission). This body will provide independent oversight of the PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) and the Forest Guide, two functional elements required to be operated centrally for NG9-1-1 to work according to prevailing standards. These requirements come from specifications developed under NENA’s standards Development Group (NDG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)… |
