Tactical Wireless IP Communications (Score 1)

My company is currently deploying a series of meshed IP networks in order to interconnect several emergency operation centers and mobile command centers in the field. This network will be used by response personel for Voice, Video and, Data. We are linking several VSAT base stations together (providing internet and local applications along the wireless network) to create VPN access points and Exported IP Video broadcasting of several areas to be made available on the web to response agencies. Here is press release: For Immediate Release F4W provides Tactical Wireless Emergency Phone and Internet services for areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina Rapid Deploy Tactical Network provides mission critical law enforcement application support and Internet connectivity to support the relief efforts of the Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriffs' Mobile Command Center. Lake Mary, FL - August 30, 2005--F4W, a leading developer of Tactical Wireless Solutions for public safety, emergency response and Homeland Security announced the deployment of the Tactical Wireless Emergency Broadband Network (TWEB(TM)) to assist disaster relief efforts in the hardest hit areas of Mississippi. Fire, rescue and law enforcement agencies from all over the country have responded with equipment and personnel to assist the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. F4W will deploy a TWEB network that provides secure wireless internet and phone service to multiple Mobile Command Centers and patrol vehicles from the various responding agencies. Additionally, F4W will deploy a Wireless Emergency Broadband Video (WEBVTM) network to provide wireless surveillance video of key intersections, staging areas and food distribution centers. "The tactical nature of this technology allows us to offer services not possible with other wireless or wired networks. We are able to deploy a network that covers several miles in a matter of hours, as was demonstrated by our deployment last year after hurricane Charley" said Harry Timmons, President of F4W. F4W's TWEB VoIP networks are a rapidly deployable wireless communication system designed to provide secure phone services. TWEB's feature Motorola, Tachyon and Panasonic equipment and F4W control software and network devices to provide phone and data service at key locations, in moving patrol vehicles and even watercraft securely at high speeds. TWEB networks are much less expensive than traditional voice and Internet solutions, and can be easily reconfigured as a users needs change. Allan Edwards CEO of F4W said,"In an area of vast devastation with no traditional phone lines, cell phone or public safety radio services, the F4W TWEB network will provide critical communications for relief agencies and a lifeline from the disaster area to the outside world. F4W will do everything possible to extend these services wherever they are needed." About Freedom 4 Wireless Based in Lake Mary, Florida, F4W is a developer of proprietary 4th Generation Mobile Broadband Wireless Services applications and products. F4W's unique tactical network products for Public Safety and Vertical Industries create mobile ad hoc networks designed for specific use and function. These self-forming networks and unique collaboration software provide secure, simple to use networks that provide real-time video, VoIP, and data services to users wherever they are, whenever they need it. 2 F4W is providing Tactical Wireless Emergency Broadband(TM) solutions for Homeland Security, First Responders and Law Enforcement Agencies. TWEB provide instant broadband data communications for tactical emergency response teams who need self forming, self healing networks. The users literally become the network; F4W tactical solutions can provide instant broadband communications without the need for a fixed infrastructure. Freedom 4 Wireless' solutions revolutionize the way Homeland Security, Law Enforcement and Emergency Responders access critical information and communicate, real-time, even while traveling a high speeds. Tactical Wireless Emergency Broadband, Video Wireless Emergency Broadband, TWEB and VWEB are trademarks of F4W, Inc. © Copyright 2004-2005. All Rights Reserved. For additional information contact: F4W Keith Money 407.804.1020 [e-mail] www.freedom4wireless.com Anyone who can do anything should be doing it for all those people down there. Being from florida myself, we deal with this every year, we are taking this knowledge and applying it to this situation as best we can In hpes of making this easier and more efficent for response personel.