Calumet City Uses New Cisco Wireless Technology to Enhance Communications and Public Safety; New 4.9 Gigahertz Wireless Solution Provides Licensed, Secure, High Speed Communications.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc., (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced that Calumet City, Illinois Calumet City is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39,072 at the 2000 census. The ZIP code is 60409. Calumet City (commonly referred to locally as "Cal City") was founded in 1892 when the villages of Schrumville and Sobieski Park merged under , is using new, innovative Cisco wireless technology to enhance departmental communications and improve citizen safety in the community. The newly available Cisco wireless technology is based on the 4.9 gigahertz (GHz) wireless band for support of public safety services. Calumet City Calumet City, city (1990 pop. 37,840), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb in the greater Chicago metropolitan area, near Ind.; settled 1868, inc. 1911. Once heavily industrial, the city is primarily residential with some light manufacturing. is currently using Cisco's new 4.9 GHz wireless mobile interface card in the Cisco 3200 Series Wireless & Mobile Routers located in police patrol vehicles to remotely access high-bandwidth data applications and enhance communications among police personnel and other local police agencies. For example, the new wireless technology is being used to access a local area intelligence data network provided by the Chicago Police Department The Chicago Police Department, also known as the CPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the city mayor. . This enables Calumet City police to have real time access to information related to recent crimes that have taken place in the region. "The 'public safety' designation and the lack of interference from other wireless networks makes the 4.9GHz technology more secure, while also delivering increased performance and coverage for our public safety network," said Patrick O'Meara Professor Patrick O'Meara (born 8th September 1947) is the Master of Van Mildert College, Durham and Professor of Russian and Russian History at Durham University. Until 2003 Associate Professor of Russian at Trinity College, Dublin, he has held visiting fellowships at the Kennan , Calumet City police chief. "Cisco has proven to be a valuable partner to Calumet City, and we look forward to utilizing this new wireless technology as a progressive approach to fighting crime and delivering improved public safety services." Calumet City has been working with Cook County to ensure the equipment and infrastructure used in this deployment is interoperable and complimentary with the Cook County's strategy for wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . Standards based technologies are key to improving the communications not only within the city but also with local county agencies as well. "The Cisco 4.9 GHz wireless technology represents a milestone for public safety agencies with the use of the licensed band approved recently by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ," said Sam Ezekiel, senior director with Cisco's Access Business Unit. "This technology will allow agencies, such as the Calumet City Police Department, to create a secure, reliable wireless network for high-speed mobile and stationary outdoor applications citywide." Calumet City has plans to integrate 4.9GHz technology along side its existing 802.11b wireless network infrastructure, and will begin installing additional Cisco 3200 Mobile Access Routers with 4.9 GHz technology into additional police vehicles, and one of its fire command vehicles to improve the effectiveness of its response, and the incident command process. In addition, Calumet City intends to use its wireless network over time to enable new applications in the area of public safety, including handheld scanning devices, in-vehicle ticket printing, and voice recognition commands. 4.9 Gigahertz -- Designed for public safety applications In 2003 the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC) allocated 50 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. of spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band to public safety services. Public safety agencies can use this licensed 4.9 GHz band to implement wireless networks with advanced services for the transmission of mission critical information such as streaming video, data access, transfer of maps, and missing person images. This new standard technology will provide public safety agencies a new option for high speed, secure, reliable IP communications networks, while creating opportunities to deploy new applications improving communications and increasing the amount of information available to field personnel. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. 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