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Cisco and JPS Communications Collaborate to Provide IP Interoperability Solution for Emergency First Responders
Session Initiation Protocol Extends to Support Radio-Over-IP Interfaces to Help Enable Faster Emergency Response
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - October 15, 2007) - Cisco (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced an
agreement with JPS Communications to market an integrated local and
wide-area communications solution to dramatically improve interoperability
for emergency first responders in local, state and federal public safety
agencies. The solution is available today.
Integrating the Raytheon JPS ACU-2000 IP interoperability gateway with the
Cisco IP Interoperability and Collaboration System (IPICS) solution
combines the easy-to-use, on-the-fly configuration capabilities of the
ACU-2000IP that are vital to seamless tactical and local interoperability,
with the wide area, IP-enabled interoperability strengths of Cisco IPICS.
The integration is enabled by the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an
open industry standard that is being advanced specifically to support
radio-over-IP interfaces and bring different radio systems together to
support radio interoperability over an IP network.
During emergency as well as normal operations, first responders such as
police, fire and rescue teams require diverse communication devices,
located at multiple sites, to operate together to share information. The
integrated solution further extends traditional interoperable
communications across agencies, suppliers and technologies by taking
advantage of an open-standards platform. This collaborative approach will
allow an officer to use his or her IP desk phone, for example, to
communicate with personnel in multiple locations at the same time,
accessing a hand-held radio, IP device, telephone, cellular phone, or
personal computer. This scalable solution will provide public sector
agencies and enterprises the highest level of efficiency so appropriate
resources can execute streamlined operations and respond rapidly and more
efficiently to any incident.
"With the ACU-2000 IP and Cisco IPICS, customers can benefit from JPS'
best-in-class radio interface capability and Cisco's proven networking
expertise in an open-standards platform," said Keith McDonald, vice
president of sales and marketing for JPS Communications. "This helps enable
seamless communications with many devices, which have previously not been
able to interface with one another, to ensure highly reliable, real-time
local and wide-area interoperable communications and enhance operational
effectiveness."
Mark Weidick, vice president and general manager of Cisco's safety and
security systems business unit, added, "Using the combined solution,
customers can achieve interoperability today in a cost-effective manner
while protecting their investment in existing radio networks."
The Cisco IPICS portfolio of products and applications streamlines daily
operations and helps enable organizations to rapidly respond to incidents
or emergencies. It dissolves communication silos between disparate land
mobile radio systems and devices such as mobile phones, landline phones, IP
phones and PC clients. Users can communicate with whatever device they
have, from wherever they are. Users can be paged or emailed with the status
of an event and can be automatically called and invited to join the virtual
conference, further improving situation awareness and reducing response
time. Cisco IPICS provides flexible and scalable communications
interoperability, enhancing the value of existing and new radio, telephony
and IP communications networks.
For more information about Cisco IPICS, visit: www.cisco.com/go/ipics.
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