VZ - Verizon Frontline delivers critical connectivity solutions during INTEROP 2024 | Benzinga
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Teams recently completed a deployment in support of first responders participating in INTEROP 2024, an annual training exercise hosted by Texas A&M University's ITEC Interoperability Institute and Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) that focuses on maintaining and restoring critical communications during large-scale public safety response efforts.
This year's exercise simulated what it would take to help ensure mission-critical communication capabilities during a large-scale event with over 100,000 attendees, as well as during a cyber attack and a terrorist attack.
To help provide exercise participants with key communications services, the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, Verizon Satellite Solutions Group (SSG) and Verizon Network Assurance Team delivered real time aerial mapping capabilities, a Tactical Command Trailer, a Rapid Response Connectivity Units (RRCU), a High Altitude Wireless Kennawhat (HAWK) drone, and multiple other Verizon Frontline solutions.
The Verizon teams on hand for the exercise leveraged a long-standing partnership with ST Engineering iDirect to help provide essential satellite communications to first responders and participants during the event.
Core focus areas of this year's training included:
- Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT)
- Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1)
- Team Awareness ...