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Designing Multi-Agency Networks for Seamless Emergency Response

Designing Multi-Agency Networks for Seamless Emergency Response When emergencies unfold, dozens of agencies move toward the same problem. Police, fire, EMS, and utility crews each bring their own communication systems, built for separate missions. During the first hours of a disaster, those divides make coordination difficult. The technology behind these networks has grown independently for

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How TX RX Keeps Towers Within Regulatory Standards

How TX RX Keeps Towers Within Regulatory Standards  Tower systems operate under a dense network of safety, electrical, and performance codes. Agencies at every level regulate how those systems are installed, powered, and maintained. TX RX develops its equipment to meet current code language and to anticipate what comes next while building flexibility into each

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Balancing Emergency Setup with Maintenance Best Practices

Fast Deployments, Long-Term Reliability: Balancing Rapid Emergency Setup with Maintenance Best Practices  Last year, the U.S. saw 27 major weather disasters, many strong enough to knock out regional radio networks. In the aftermath, field crews move fast, raising portable towers, connecting amplifiers, and restoring distributed antenna systems (DAS) that keep responders in contact. Quick deployment

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Designing for Continuous Uptime in Public Safety Systems

Zero-Downtime Networks: Designing for Continuous Uptime in Public Safety Systems  Downtime exposes the weakest point in every public safety network and when communication fails, even briefly, coordination falters and emergency response slows. The expectation for reliability has moved beyond redundancy. Uptime is now treated as a constant condition, an operational truth that must hold under

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LMR, LTE, and 5G Are Redefining Communications

How LMR, LTE, and 5G Are Redefining Mission-Critical Communications  Modern public safety and enterprise networks are no longer defined by a single technology, with land mobile radio (LMR), LTE, and 5G now operating side by side. Together they form a communications framework built to outlast any one platform. The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council has

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How to Tune an Airline Junction Combiner

Tuning begins well before any adjustments are made; it starts with system awareness, knowing what is in place and what is being added, and what impact those changes will have on the signal environment. Airline Junction Combiners are tuned by cavity, not by system, and every cavity behaves differently depending on frequency spacing, layout, and

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Smart DAS Monitoring is the Future of Infrastructure

Smart DAS Monitoring is Shaping the Future of Wireless Infrastructure There is a constant and ever-increasing demand for reliable communication networks and smart distributed antenna systems (DAS) have emerged as a game-changing solution for the future of wireless infrastructure.  Traditionally, DAS has played a key role for wireless coverage, especially in environments where macro-cell towers

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Nationwide Dispatch Matters for Public Safety

Why Nationwide Dispatch Matters for LMR and Public Safety Communications The 911 system is not technically national. Over 5700 primary and secondary Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) handle these emergency calls; there are also 3000 counties with their own 911 answering services. In the event someone has to call 911 for someone else in another

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How Emergency Broadcast Systems Stay Online

How Emergency Broadcast Systems Stay Online When Everything Else Fails  Since 1963, many Americans grew up with a television or radio broadcast being interrupted every week by the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) or the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The same could be said for Canadians who have had their Alert Ready system since 2015, as

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