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December 7, 2011 -- Emergent Communications attends ICE 4 in Irving, Texas
Emergent Communications announced today it recently completed interoperability testing at the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) 4th Industry Collaboration Event (ICE 4) held in Irving Texas. This was the largest event of its kind and featured some of the most complex test scenarios to date using Next Generation 9-1-1 components based on NENA 08-003, the core standard for NG9-1-1 services.
Emergent tested its Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP), and its cloud based i3 PSAP offer consisting of PSAP director (PSAPd) and its new release of PSAP call taker (PSAPc). All of these elements are designed to be deployed within an ESInet as a managed software as a services (SaaS) offer.
"We are very excited and pleased to see such a large turnout and so many new companies participate in the event" said Mike Tedder, Emergent's co-founder. "It really shows we as an industry have turned the corner and moved away from the legacy technologies toward an open architecture, standards based solution that will bring many new services to the entire emergency communications community".
December 3, 2010 -- Emergent Communications attends Texas NG 9-1-1 Summit
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/State-commission-aims-to-revamp-911-system-111184359.html
Emergent Communications participated in the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC) Next Generation 9-1-1 Summit held in Austin Texas. CSEC is charged with working with leading telecommunications companies and local 9-1-1 authorities to administer the statewide 9-1-1 program. The event was attended by local, state and national officials involved with planning and managing the development of a Next Gen 9-1-1 communications system capable of delivering greater data and services to emergency call takers and dispatchers.
"It is a pleasure to see the State of Texas start the first stages of implementation of the Next Generation Master Plan they have worked so hard on over the last two years. Especially significant is the state's commitment to the NENA i3 next gen framework as outlined in the Functional and Interface Standards for Next Generation 9-1-1 V 1.0" says Emergent co-founder Mike Tedder. "We totally support their view of statewide ESInets to connect all 573 PSAPs using open and non-proprietary standards and technology. We think the state is on the right path to be one of the first states to deliver a new higher level of emergency communication services to its citizens" he added.
November 24 2010 -- FCC Chairman announces steps to update the nation's 9-1-1 system (View Press Release)
Emergent Communications supports the statement FCC Chairman Genachowski recently made to "Bring 9-1-1 into the digital age". The chairman announced that he is preparing steps to "revolutionize the 9-1-1 system to include the use of text, photos and video communications" in emergency response situations. He will lead a drive to transition the current voice-only 9-1-1 system (largely analog) to a broadband enabled next generation 9-1-1 system. The FCC will consider a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) at its next meeting in December. Emergent encourages the Next Gen vendor community to comment and participate in the FCC NOI process. The public is encouraged to make comments and provide opinions into the FCC. Please check the link below for updates on this very important process.
http://www.broadband.gov/?utm_source=fcc.gov&utm_medium=rotator&utm_campaign=broadband
Emergent is building call routing and call taking software components that adhere to the FCC's National Broadband Plan and NENA i3 Next Generation model. Emergent's E-call taker software can receive and display video, text and supplemental data (i.e. automatic crash notification and telematics)
May 29, 2010 -- Emergent Communications successfully tests its PSAP director (PSAPd) and E-call taker software at ICE 2 event.
At the second annual Industry Collaboration Event (ICE 2) held in Irving Texas, Emergent Communications successfully tested its Next Generation 9-1-1 call routing and call taker software with industry vendors supplying transitional elements to the legacy 9-1-1 network. The test involved products with capabilities that enable migration from the current analog 9-1-1 system to the new Emergent platform that routs and delivers IP calls and all related location information to emergency call takers. These call takers only need to have the Emergent E-call taker thin client running on common-off-the-shelf workstations at the PSAP. The rest of the call routing and delivery technology is "hosted" or positioned in the state or county data center or public safety operations center (PSOC). This is the second time that vendors committed to open standards based interoperability have come together to cooperate and work together to test their various offers. The group of vendors grew in number by approx 50% from the first ICE event held last November. The event was sponsored by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA).
November 12, 2009 -- Emergent Communications participates in first ever Next Gen 9-1-1 Industry Collaboration Event (ICE 1) sponsored by NENA (www.NENA.org)
During the inaugural Next Gen 9-1-1 Industry Collaboration Event, a four day gathering at the Texas A&M campus in College Station Texas, Emergent successfully tested its call routing and call delivery software platform for interoperability with applications and systems provided by other vendors building Next Generation 9-1-1 products. Emergent tested is LoST server, Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP), PSAP director server (PSAPd) and multi-media capable E-call taker client for the PSAP call takers. The event featured sixteen leading public safety companies testing various emergency call scenarios over IP networks.
"Our participation in this event underscores our commitment to a Next Gen market built around open standards established by both NENA and the IETF and interoperability between vendor products. It was fantastic to see so many competing vendors come together to test interoperability" said Mike Tedder co-founder of Emergent Communications. "We view interoperability as key to the future of all emergency communications as so many new and exciting technologies are introduced into this market" he added.
June 2008 -- Emergent Communications demonstrated the DOT Proof of Concept Next Gen 9-1-1 system developed in conjunction with Columbia University and Texas AM at the NENA National 9-1-1 Annual Conference in Tampa Florida June 7-10. The system is being developed to comply with the NENA i3 and FPP vision of IP based next generation emergency communications services. This new platform supports voice, text and video communications and allows transfer and conference capabilities, with all relevant data, between IP enabled PSAPs and responders.
June 2007 -- The prototype of the Emergent IP-based platform, demonstrated at the NENA National Conference in Charlotte, NC, June 11 & 12, 2007, clearly shows that the NENA Future Path Plan and NG 9-1-1 are not only possible, they are possible today. State and Regional authorities should be aware that IP based systems are possible today and should consider requiring IP based platforms and FPP compliance when new systems are needed. Federal grant administrators should gear future grant funding, such as Communications Interoperability and ENHANCE 9-1-1 programs, toward systems that move Public Safety and Emergency Communications towards this Next Generation technology.