Arlington County, Va., builds first responder wireless broadband network

Arlington County, Virginia, which consumes 26 square-miles of suburban Washington D.C.  and hosts the U.S. Pentagon and Reagan National Airport, is deploying a broadband wireless network for emergency first responders.Arlington County, Virginia, which consumes 26 square-miles of suburban Washington D.C.  and hosts the U.S. Pentagon and Reagan National Airport, is deploying a broadband wireless network for emergency first responders.

The network will use Proxim’s Tsunami MP.11 5054R and 2454R products in a county command center and mobile command vehicles. ¬¨‚ĆA Proxim press release quotes David Jordan, Arlington County’s chief information security officer:

“We can’t control where emergencies happen, and we wanted to develop a quicker response to deploying connections back into county resources.”