SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - November 8, 2008) - As public safety agencies around the country
strive to do more with less and meet mission challenges, Cisco (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) today announced a new set of solutions that will modernize the major
functions of public safety, including headquarters and operations, field
operations and patrol, emergency communication, and incident command and
response. Additionally, Cisco announced a collaboration with IBM,
BearingPoint and other industry leading companies to deliver new public
safety solutions that help transform how public safety agencies secure and
protect their communities.
Cisco will demonstrate these innovative solutions in booth # 5105 at the
115th Annual
International Association of
Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference and Exposition, to be held November
8 - 12, 2008 in San Diego, Calif.
In a time of shrinking budgets, increasing mission requirements and
challenges in recruiting and retaining qualified personnel, public safety
leaders are seeking innovative solutions to transform their current
operations, to meet future needs and to increase the effectiveness and
efficiency of their agency. "Cisco has brought top public safety companies
together, under one portfolio, to address these significant tasks that lay
ahead," said Morgan Wright, Global Industry Solutions Manager for Public
Safety and Homeland Security at Cisco Systems. "Our open-standards platform
for safety and security has allowed tremendous innovation to occur, right
here, on the show floor in San Diego."
Cisco's Safety and Security solution portfolio offers public safety
organizations the ability to securely and effectively protect persons and
assets with a scalable, reliable and open platform that can be rapidly
deployed and customized to meet the unique needs of our communities. The
solutions include:
-- CAD Sensor and Video Integration
-- Emergency Communication and Collaboration (EC3)
-- Comprehensive Voice Interoperability
-- Gunshot Location and Detection
-- Alerting and Notification
-- Video Surveillance and Analytics
-- Automated License Plate Recognition
-- Mobile Computing - Rugged Handhelds
-- In-Car Video
-- Incident Command and Response and NIMS
-- Tactical and Command Vehicle Communications
Cisco also collaborated with industry leaders in delivering public safety
solutions that take advantage of Cisco's Open Platform for Safety and
Security.
-- The Cisco and IBM Command, Control and Collaboration solution
modernizes group efforts within and among law enforcement and public safety
agencies. The solution offers unified communications solutions that help
connect people directly with one another while providing secure access to
crucial real-time information anytime, anywhere.
-- The Cisco and BearingPoint Public Safety Communications and Incident
Command and Response solution provides effective governance, operations and
reliable communications to first responders.
Cisco has worked with two Cisco Technology Developer Program partners to
develop additional solutions for the Cisco Safety and Security Portfolio.
The Positron Public Safety Systems
Emergency Communication and Collaboration Platform
offers an IP-based citizen-to-authority emergency response solution for
global, regional and local public safety agencies. The
ShotSpotter Gunshot
Location System (GLS) is used for wide-area acoustic surveillance
coupled with audio analytics that detect, locate, identify, and classify
gunfire and other explosive incidents in seconds and relay
mission-essential information to dispatch and field personnel in public
safety, homeland security, and military applications.
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