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

URL Integration Acquisition Bolsters MCP’s Data-Integration Capabilities

When we launched MCP a little more than a decade ago, we established some pretty aggressive growth goals, ...
January 16, 2020

MCP Once Again Adds Critical Subject-Matter Expertise—and We’re Not Done

The public safety sector has been evolving rapidly over the past decade, and continues to do so. In fact, the ...
January 7, 2020