by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The largest prize challenge in NIST’s history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize competition birthed by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) with partners the First Responder Network Authority and FirstNet by AT&T, earned nearly $500K in funding for exhibiting progress toward commercialization after gaining initial funding during the May Demonstration Round contest…
by ECC Editor | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Cloud-based 911 solutions provider Carbyne announced a strategic technology partnership with legacy 911 vendor CentralSquare that is designed to let public-safety answering point (PSAP) customers benefit from the integration of the two companies’ offerings as the migrate to next-generation 911 (NG911)… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
First responders in Patrick County received a major communications boost at the end of October when two new FirstNet cell sites went live in the county.
AT&T Public Affairs spokesperson Daniel Langan and AT&T Corporate Communications spokesperson Karen Twomey explained in a release that FirstNet is a nationwide wireless broadband network dedicated to public safety and eventually will operate entirely on its own spectrum, known as Band 14…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
“Who Ya Gonna Call?” is the seventh episode of the first season of the American comedy-drama television series “Psych”. The Hurricane season garners our attention in late summer and in winter it is the snow and ice. The news media reports the progress of hurricanes around the clock, generally showing reporters trying to stand upright with wind and rain pelting them as they report on the storms. One of the first thing the average individual thinks about is “stocking up on essentials” just in case we are flooded or homebound due to heavy snow. The news media documents the “stocking up” with video clips of shopping carts filled with water, toilet paper, candles, and batteries…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Have you ever been in an emergency and called 911? Most of you would have, and the person who responds to your call is a 911 dispatcher whose duty is to receive the calls and respond to an emergency. The 911 dispatcher is another career within the law enforcement agencies that act as a bridge to mitigate emergencies within the United States.
There are many tempting aspects of the job of 911 Dispatcher that has compelled many people to look for the ways of becoming a 911 dispatcher, if you are reading this article you might be one of them who wonder, how to become a dispatcher or how much do 911 dispatchers make?
by ECC Editor | Dec 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
(TNS) — Children are taught from a young age to dial 911 in an emergency. Whether it’s a heart attack, a break-in or a fire, 911 answers the call right away.
A widespread 911 service outage across Kansas on Sunday afternoon is testing that assumption.
A roughly three-hour disruption sent police and sheriffs scrambling to post alternative phone numbers to social media. Multiple counties were unable to log into the state’s 911 system during that time. What happened if you called varied from area to area, with some agencies able to reroute calls before service was fully restored by around 4:40 p.m… READ MORE
