Articles
Nokia's Steve Hwang joins the ACCF board
The Australasian Critical Communications Forum has welcomed Steve Hwang to its board of directors. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Lightning protection for radiocommunication sites
A total system approach can protect radiocommunication sites from even direct lightning strikes to towers, antennas and powerlines. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Whatever happened to the National Strategic Radio System?
Governments have known about interoperability problems for decades. It is time for something to be done about it, says Ben Cosier. [ + ]
Best of 2020: No room for communications complacency in the 'new normal'
Australia's public safety communications need to be treated as a single ecosystem, with full spectrum allocations and proper funding. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Interview: TCCA’s Tony Gray and ACCF’s Kevin Graham
The mission-critical communications industry is firmly on the path towards open standards-based broadband solutions. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Australia and the WRC — seeking spectrum harmony
Australia's delegation to the WRC-19 focused on advancing the nation's legitimate interests in spectrum policy and technology matters. [ + ]
Season's greetings
Critical Comms is taking a break now until early January, so we'd like to wish you a merry festive season and a safe and prosperous New Year. [ + ]
Best of 2020: Keeping the Met connected with TETRA
With the ESN delayed, the London Metropolitan Police is refreshing its TETRA network to maintain services and add innovative capabilities. [ + ]
Managing to succeed with a technical project manager
Technical project managers are an asset of any technical project, and more organisations are using them to deliver projects. [ + ]
Huge expansion of emergency satellite comms
Hundreds of new fixed and mobile satellite dishes will give better broadband connectivity for first responders and the community during natural disasters. [ + ]
Virtual conference brings the industry together
The Comms Connect Virtual conference series covered a wide range of topics and attracted speakers from around the globe. [ + ]
Project to create next-gen wireless devices
Researchers are experimenting with adaptive, tunable filtering to reject interference in spectrum-sharing systems. [ + ]
Big data for big radio telescope
A team preparing for the billion-dollar SKA radio telescope reached the shortlist for 'Nobel Prize of supercomputing'. [ + ]
Solving wireless connectivity issues in mining
How to build a reliable and secure network that is flexible enough to suit the changing conditions of the mining sector. [ + ]
Public Safety Mobile Broadband to be expedited
Australia's governments seem to have finally gotten the message regarding rolling out a national Public Safety Mobile Broadband capability. [ + ]