Law enforcements agencies of all sizes deploy field vehicles and personnel across the United States in order to protect and serve our communities. The departments that deploy them, and the officers they deploy, need to get and stay connected to ensure safe, fast, and efficient operations. Large departments need solutions that are… Read more…
Emergency Connectivity Fund
The ECF provides “funding for schools and libraries for the purchase, during the coronavirus (COVID- 19) pandemic, of connected devices and broadband connections for use by students, school staff, and library patrons.” More specifically, this funding has been set aside for… Read more…
American Lighthouse Foundation
America is full of wide-open prairies, mountain valleys, and remote coastal areas where internet connectivity is often difficult obtain. While the average business resides in urban areas where connectivity options are plentiful, there are those operating our at the fringe. For them, it’s not as simple as calling the local cable company to get their organizations online… Read more…
Advanced 5G Router Portfolio Released
Sierra Wireless, today launched the next evolution in market leading routers with its new XR Series of multi-network 5G routers. In addition to the previously launched world’s first multi-network MG90 5G vehicle router, the first two routers in the XR Series, the XR90 and the XR80, enable customers to leverage the higher data speeds and lower latency of 5G… Read more…
Smart Mining With 5G Networks
Marcus is the technology manager for a large mining corporation. The corporation is continually looking for ways to improve mining safety, increase efficiency and raise productivity. Recently he’s been investigating the benefits of using private networks and 5G hardware to ensure the continued success and expansion of their… Read more…
Public Transit Networking
Public and private transit agencies manage hundreds of vehicles deployed across wide geographic regions. The success of managing these fleets is dependent upon reliable mobile communications solutions. Management teams need visibility regarding what’s going on in the field. Buses need to collect fares, access CAD/AVL data, upload camera logs, provide rider Wi-Fi, and… Read more…
Cellular Failover for Retail Operations
Retail operations need solutions that enable near 100% uptime at every location to ensure client transactions happen without delay. While most hard-line internet service providers boast over 99% uptime, that remaining 1% can cost a business hundreds to thousands of dollars. After one grocery store chain valued loses at an average of… Read more…
5G Emergency Medical Service Solutions
Julia is a Senior EMT-Paramedic for a decent-sized city. Elected by her organizations’ IT Director for being one of the most knowledgeable and experienced EMT professionals on staff, she is heading up a team to improve and expedite patient care through better field communications with local hospitals. She was tasked with… Read more…
Mobile Command Center Connectivity
Police departments, law enforcement agencies, and rescue organizations strategically deploy mobile command vehicles to areas and events in need of high levels of resource coordination. These vehicles are rarely deployed for routine operations, most commonly utilized when large scale efforts are required. In high stress situations maintaining reliable… Read more…
Sierra Wireless Ransomware Attack
Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the world’s leading IoT solutions provider, today announced that it discovered it was the subject of a ransomware attack on its internal IT systems on March 20, 2021. Once the company learned of the attack, its IT and operations teams immediately implemented measures to counter the attack in accordance with… Read more…