Mutualink Edge IWS Earns FirstNet Listed Designation
Mutualink EDGE IWS Earns FirstNet Listed Designation FirstNet – America’s public safety communications platform – features the first-ever App Catalog geared to first responders. This gives FirstNet subscribers a dedicated location to find meaningful new solutions that have been specifically reviewed for use with FirstNet services. Before any mobile solution can be added to the FirstNet App Catalog, it must pass stringent tests for security, relevancy, data privacy and more. Achieving a FirstNet Listed designation...
Mutualink Touts Success at FirstNet Road Shows
Mutualink Provides Voice, Video & Data Sharing Demos Wallingford, CT— January 23, 2018 — Today, Mutualink, Inc., an interoperability solutions provider specializing in public safety communications, announced that they successfully participated in FirstNet kickoff events in five states: Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, demonstrating their innovative multimedia interoperability solution capabilities. According to Mutualink, the demonstrations were well-received by attendees. “Reaching out to first responders and showing the enhanced reliability and capabilities that come about...
Case Study: How FIRSTNET Helped a Texas Agency Use Video Technologies
First responders reap the benefits of mobile video technologies when they have access to a robust & reliable network By Jacque Miller-Waring At first glance, Brazos County is like most other sprawling Texas communities with deep roots in farming and ranching. One look at the bustling city of Bryan or the thriving academic center of Texas A&M University explains why this southeast central part of Texas is quickly becoming known as an ideal place to...
Four Benefits of Adding Video to Your Interoperable Communications
The ability to interoperate during emergencies is critical to quickly resolve incidents with the best outcomes. To share information with first responders, a picture is worth a thousand words. And video is worth a hundred images. So think about these benefits when considering how you collaborate within your agency and with other agencies: Show, not Tell Sometimes when responding to emergencies, words fail us. Sometimes we don't know how to describe what we're seeing. Words...
Lessons Learned From Global Attacks Can Improve FirstNet Crisis Response
Lessons Learned from Global Attacks: FirstNet Terrorist attacks across the globe, and particularly here in the United States, present a huge opportunity for the nation to learn how to improve communication and information sharing in times of crisis. These lessons learned can be particularly helpful to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) in developing and deploying the nationwide public safety broadband network (NPSBN), according to a new white paper released by interoperable communications provider Mutualink....