Author: AJ Ramsey, Global Public Sector Marketing

The International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) was held in Las Vegas the week of March 21^stwith over 7000 attendees at this year's event. IWCE is one of the premier events of the year for communication professionals and Cisco along with a number of our partners demonstrated a variety next-generation public safety solutions based on open standards, secure networks, and Internet of Things technologies. Cisco also provided several presentations and participated on multiple panel discussions discussing our next generation instant communications solutions using private and public networks that are available to government and enterprise customers.

IWCE was a great showcase for Cisco's newest release of our Instant Connect software solution, which includes an integrated phone dialer and live video streaming client now available to customers.Cisco Instant Connectsupports public safety, utilities, and industrial customer needs with multivendor, interoperable-broadband technologies and provide the ability to connect different systems that unify P25, LTE and public safety broadband technologies.

Other partner solutions in the booth which also drew interest included:

• Etherstackdemonstrated how legacy base stations can be reprogramed for P25 narrowband along with Cisco highlighting the Virtualized Enhanced Packet Core as a software application to route data over LTE networks
• A live Band Class 14 system based onParallel WirelessLTE in a box solution
• SonimUltra Rugged phones on Band Class 14 using Cisco Instant Connect push to talk software
• Dial connect product formTechnufthat allows push to talk users to easily make and receive telephone calls
• RolltsDomino which allows users to wear a push to talk device connect via Bluetooth to the Cisco mobile client application
• HigherGroundproviding best-in-class recording for incident reconstruction in public safety and performance monitoring in contact centers.

As a follow up, Cisco is hosting anUnified Instant Communication webcaston April 19, 2016 at 11:00 am EDT US. Please join us to hear from experts on how the Cisco Instant Connect solution can help you connect sensors to the Internet, make your job easier and reduce cost as we cover:

• Push to Talk and radio integration
• Public Safety and Private LTE Devices
• Public Safety and Private LTE Networks
• Radio Migration to Converged all IP based P25 networks

Please register now

Thank you

Cisco Instant Connect and Cisco Public Safety Team

www.cisco.com/go/instantconnect

www.cisco.com/go/government