2014 COMM Van Rally Presentations


This year, the 6th annual MCC Rally was held in Sacramento. In cooperation with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), the Northern California Chapter of APCO Int’l (NAPCO), and the California Fire & Rescue Training Authority, the California Fire Chiefs Association (Communications Section – Northern Division), the Rally was very well attended, and continues to grow and exceed expectations from all parties involved.

If you missed your chance to visit and see some of the presentations, you truly missed out. Two of the presentations are now available for viewing. Click on the titles below to visit, or download the presentations. Make sure you make plans for the 7th annual MCC Rally in 2015, held in conjunction with the APCO Western Regional Conference, at the Sacramento Convention Center.

The Emergence of HF-NVIS as the Base Layer of Fallback Communications for Government, Public Safety, & Critical Infrastructure.
Presenters: Don Irving & John Rosica, NVIS
Most modern public safety communications modes require complex infrastructure, which makes them inherently vulnerable. HF-NVIS (High Frequency-Near Vertical Incident Skywave) with modern software/firmware control is becoming the nation’s base layer fallback mode for reliable, automated, voice and data communications over wide regional areas, without need for technical users, and with no intervening infrastructure. It is being adopted by Federal, State, and Local government agencies and by critical infrastructure providers. This session describes this critical public safety communications mode and the latest advances for automatic calling, email, LMR interconnect, PSTN interconnect, SMS, fax, and multi-hop networking.

Emerging Communications Technologies: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy and Super Typhoon Haiyan
Presenter: Rakesh Bharania/Cisco
Emergency communicators are rapidly changing the way they respond during disasters. The public’s ability to communicate instantly is creating high expectations for rapid emergency response. We’ll be looking at some of the new communications trends and technologies from recent events such as Hurricane Sandy and Super Typhoon Haiyan.

To see a list of all classes offered at the 2014 California Mobile Command Center Rally, see: http://www.9-1-1magazine.com/CA-MCC-Rally-2014-Class-Sched

For more information on the California Mobile Command Center Rally, see: http://www.9-1-1magazine.com/CA-MCC-Rally