SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Etherstack plc (ASX: ESK) introduced the product launch of its carrier grade MCX IWF (Mission Critical Push-To-Talk InterWorking Function).
The MCX IWF is a telco community element that seamlessly bridges conventional public security land mobile radio (LMR) networks with subsequent generation MCPTX (mission critical push to talk) services that carriers are starting to deploy for public security agencies globally.
As beforehand announced, Etherstack has received an preliminary order for its MCX IWF product via its partner Samsung Electronics for provide into lead telco carrier networks in North America.
Deployment actions for the preliminary deliveries are well under way. Standards-based migration from existing LMR networks to carrier 4G/LTE & 5G MCX networks requires the use of an MCX IWF to allow safe and robust interoperability between the LMR & MCX domains. These hybrid LMR & MCX networks will be commonplace for at least one other decade as conventional LMR customers migrate to MCX.
Mr Doug Chapman, Etherstack Senior VP North America said, “Etherstack is widely acknowledged because the main licensor of LMR protocols and gateway applied sciences inside the general public security industry globally. We have over two decades of high-performance communications community softswitching expertise which when mixed with our LMR expertise means that we can ship the highest achievable ranges of LMR performance and standards-compliance to the market.”
Etherstack is a wi-fi technology firm specialising in developing, manufacturing and licensing mission critical radio applied sciences for wi-fi equipment producers and community operators across the globe. With a particular focus inside the general public safety, defence, utilities, transportation and useful resource sectors, Etherstack’s technology and options can be present in radio communications equipment used inside the most demanding situations. The firm has R&D facilities in London, Sydney, New York and Yokohama.
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