All Fire & Rescue NSW fire engines are being fitted with AVL technology under an $850,000 government program. [ + ]

A weekly round-up of radio and communications news from around the internet for Friday, 23 August 2013.

Guest speaker for the 2013 SA Industry Dinner and Networking Event will be the Shadow Minister for Economic and Regional Development, Martin Hamilton-Smith. [ + ]

A European fibre network has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest rate of provisioning multiterabit optical capacity. [ + ]

Altium and Desktop EDA have partnered to provide PCB designers better ECAD and MCAD integration with Dassault SolidWorks, Siemens Solid Edge and Autodesk Inventor. [ + ]

Zetron will resell Direct Technology’s Emergency Call-Tracking System (ECaTs), an advanced management reporting solution for 9-1-1 systems. [ + ]

Western Australian industry and science will benefit from a $26m WA government investment in the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. [ + ]

Rohde & Schwarz and HAMEG Instruments are set to deliver a range of cost-effective test and measurement 'Value Instruments'. [ + ]

A weekly round-up of radio and communications news from around the internet.

NASA has chosen MATLAB and Simulink software for use aboard the International Space Station. [ + ]

Zetron will demonstrate its Remote Command-and-Control Suite at APCO 2013 in Anaheim, California. [ + ]

Broadcast Australia has announced that Paul Mullen, managing director of Hostworks, is to leave the company. [ + ]

Simoco is supplying Australian embassies worldwide with P25 systems for use by federal police and embassy staff. [ + ]

Two hundred LTE networks have been commercially launched in 76 countries, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association. [ + ]

A partnership between Zetron and Eventide will see Zetron integrate the NexLog logging recorder into its systems. [ + ]