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SK Telecom and Nokia Develop Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk (MCPTT) Solution Over VoLTE

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SK Telecom and Nokia Develop Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk (MCPTT)

SK Telecom and Nokia have announced joint development of “Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk (MCPTT) solution, which is a next-generation push-to-talk communications technology over VoLTE, and demonstrated the solution at Nokia's Research and Development Center in Kraków, Poland.

Public Safety LTE Market Drivers 2014: Why Public Safety LTE and Why Now?

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While LMR systems have effectively support mission-critical voice and low-bandwidth data applications for many years, they fail to provide the high-speed data performance necessary to support the multimedia applications on which today’s Public Safety agencies increasingly rely upon. 

Cassidian, Alcatel-Lucent Perform Public Safety LTE Trials

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LTE

During the last few months, Cassidian and Alcatel-Lucent have successfully conducted LTE trials in 4G LTE pilot networks in France, Spain, the Middle East and Mexico.

Alcatel-Lucent Conducts Trial of LTE Public Safety Network in Las Vegas

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Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent and the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, along with the Nevada Department of Transportation and other first responders, conducted a six-month trial of a 4G LTE public safety network in a designated section of the city of Las Vegas in the United States.  

Star Solutions Demonstrates Deployable Public Safety LTE System

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Vancouver, B.C., Canada, November 25, 2013 – Star Solutions reveals its LTE deployable manpack solution, the IMPAC System, at the Seventh Canadian Public Safety Interoperability Workshop (CITIG Seven). Single switch activation enables the IMPAC System to provide a complete 700MHz LTE Band 14 network within minutes.

PSCR uses Polaris Networks’ NetEPC to demonstrate Deployable LTE at the Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference

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Lexington, Massachusetts, June 10, 2013 – Polaris Networks participated in the Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference from June 4 to June 6, 2013, in Westminster, Colorado. Polaris Networks' CTO, Vinay Gupta, participated in a panel discussion on 'Deployable LTE'.

LTE Standards for Public Safety – 3GPP view

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At ’Critical Communications World’ conference, Balazs Bertenyi, the 3GPP SA Chair, recently reported on the latest status of the first 3GPP features for public safety, in particular those covering Proximity services (Direct mode) and Group call.

Axell Wireless Enhances Public Safety Solutions

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Paris, 22nd May, 2013 - Axell Wireless, the worldwide leader in public safety coverage solutions, today announced enhancements to its market leading portfolio of public safety coverage systems at the Critical Communications World show.

Alcatel-Lucent Completes Key LTE Interoperability Testing for U.S. Public Safety Applications

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Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent has announced that the company successfully demonstrated full interoperability of its solution for using 4G LTE wireless technology in public safety applications in the United States.

Alcatel-Lucent demonstrates Voice-over-IMS interoperability to FirstNet board

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Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated Voice-over-IMS and RCS presence technology to the Board of FirstNet (the First Responder Network Authority), an important step in the adoption of industry standards-based Public Safety LTE in broadband voice and data communications for emergency services. 

Motorola Solutions Completes Public Safety LTE Network Interoperability

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UM1000 LTE USB Modem

Motorola Solutions has successfully completed all testing activities associated with Phase 3: Part One, with the Public Safety Communications Research Program (PSCR) located at the Department of Commerce, Boulder Laboratories in Colorado.

Delivering Public Safety Communications with LTE

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Today there are two separate technology families for providing wide-area wireless communications: commercial cellular networks and dedicated public safety systems.

Nokia Siemens Networks, Cisco, Harris complete initial phase 3 testing of public safety LTE broadband network

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Nokia Siemens Networks, Cisco and Harris Corporation have completed the initial section of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program phase 3 LTE Demonstration Network Test Plan.

Connected Cities: Public Safety LTE Trends

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RCR Wireless Editorial Webinar: The public safety space has for years been tasked with attempting to accomplish an increasingly complex job using antiquated equipment. That challenge appears to be gaining some attention as the wireless industry and public safety officials are looking to begin deploying next-generation networks using LTEi technology.