Next Generation 911 Networks (6)
How to Keep GIS Institutional Knowledge From Walking Out the Door
Every once in a while, the geographic information system (GIS) professional working for one of our clients ...
May 19, 2020
One Way To Keep Public Safety Technology Procurements from Derailing
Emergency communications centers need a lot of gear. They need wireless communications systems to communicate ...
May 5, 2020
The Case for Private Long-Term Evolution Networks for Power Utilities
Next month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to vote on reconfiguring the 900 MHz band ...
April 23, 2020
Why COOP/DR Plans Need to Consider GIS Data Maintenance
A couple of weeks ago, MCP’s Richard Gaston posted about why it is critically important for every ...
April 17, 2020
Public Safety Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Bug
As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
April 16, 2020
Assessing Progress Towards Next Generation 911 is No Easy Task
In 2015, while beginning work on the Next Generation 911 (NG911) Nationwide Cost Study for the National 911 ...
April 10, 2020
Pandemic Underscores Importance of Public Safety Continuity-Of-Operations and Disaster-Recovery Plans
COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, pandemic is grabbing a lot of attention right now, partly because we don’t see ...
March 31, 2020
The Role of LTE in the Utilities Sector
Southern Company is one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States, covering a large ...
February 21, 2020
2020 Public Safety Industry Outlook
We’re six weeks into a new year and a new decade, and public safety leaders are focused on pursuing more ...
February 13, 2020
Utility Communications Networks Resemble a Spider’s Web
Last fall I attended a conference presented by the Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA), which caters to utility ...
February 7, 2020