Friday fragments - comms news from around the web for 27 June 2014

A round-up of the week's critical communications and public safety radio news for Friday, 27 June 2014.

Police test cellular-to-LMR. Security was extra-tight during this year's Boston Marathon, given what happened last year. In a trial, undercover police officers and supervisors used Harris Corp's BeOn system to communicate between their smartphones on LTE and the police LMR system.

Canadian nuclear power stations go TETRA. Ontario Power Generation has selected PowerTrunk to implement a TETRA-based Rapid Deployment Disaster Management Communication System for its Pickering and Darlington nuclear power generating stations.

Public safety comms market report. Research and Markets, an analysis firm, has released a report on the public safety communications market, covering P25, TETRA, LTE and other topics.

WavePoint wins. Embedded Military Systems magazine has conferred its Editor's Choice Award on FreeWave Technologies' WavePoint solution. WavePoint is an M2M system designed to “secure command and control of unmanned systems … dismounted soldier and vehicle tracking capabilities, and … remote military infrastructure monitoring, among other mission-critical government and defence applications".

Sheriff's pleas for new radio system. A US county sheriff's letter to the editor of a local newspaper spells out what's at stake if the county does not fund a new radio system to replace the barely functioning one currently in space. The newspaper's editor goes in to bat for it too.

ZTE's dynamic mesh for 5G. ZTE has released details of a 5G “access network architecture based on dynamic mesh networking", saying that it “believes that 5G RAN (radio access network) technology should be a dynamic mesh network based on IP backhaul".

Interested in radar? Something a little out of the ordinary are these radar ships belonging to the US Navy. Used to defend airspace and track missiles, they are the mostly unseen piece of the defence jigsaw puzzle.

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