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Why Dashboards?
At the end of 2022, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) laid down the gauntlet on improving 911 reliability by issuing an order [FCC 22-88]...
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Why Forest Guides?
The move to an IP-based infrastructure offers numerous benefits, some of which will be used every day, and some will not likely be as obvious. Forest...
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Why NG911 (And Not Not NG911)
Having spent many years as a technologist in the telecommunications industry, I was hoping to see more enthusiasm for the next generation of 911, or...
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Why Edge Computing?
In the coming weeks, Intrado will introduce the Sonic EDGE, an alternate configuration of the Sonic G3, and a cutting-edge appliance that gives...
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Why Nationwide ESInets?
Cybersecurity experts often refer to the dangers to an enterprise in terms of their threat surface—all the ways in which a hacker could break into...
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The Cloud Story is a Data Story
Those of us from the information technology profession did you a disservice many years ago when we first drew the early concept of the Internet—of...
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A Watershed Moment for Smarter Cities
There’s one thing to know about 2022: Many more communities across the U.S. will become smarter than they were before, maybe even smart cities. What...
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Intrado is Mapping a Course for NextGen GIS Success in Public Safety (Part One)
Data can be incredibly valuable; but like most things that are worth a lot, it needs to be maintained. That’s certainly true of 911 data. Ask anyone...
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NG911 Spatial Call Routing Basics
What is NG911? Intrado provides Next Generation 911 call routing technology (NG911) to more than 630 PSAPs across the United States. In fact, 2 out...
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Leveraging NG911 to Support UCaaS
Managing locations for Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) deployments that scale into the hundreds or thousands of phones while supporting...