Emergin Expands Federal Aviation Administration Installation of Emergin WirelessOffice; FAA Broadens Scale of Wireless Emergency Notification System.Business Editors/Aviation & Technology Writers BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2002 Emergin, Inc., a leading provider of mobile middleware and applications for enterprises, today announced a contract award from the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control (FAA) for the installation of Emergin WirelessOffice(R) in twenty-nine FAA Service Operation Centers. All three of the FAA's Operations Control Centers (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ) installed and implemented Emergin WirelessOffice in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Each OCC, covering one-third of the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ), provides 24x7 infrastructure monitoring and serves as the point of contact for trouble reports. OCC personnel use Emergin WirelessOffice to broadcast security alerts and critical system availability messages to FAA staff, including emergency response teams. The FAA is now expanding its use of Emergin WirelessOffice to include twenty-nine FAA Service Operations Centers (SOC). An SOC is the operational maintenance and support organization charged with controlling, coordinating and monitoring the NAS airway airway /air·way/ (-wa) 1. the passage by which air enters and leaves the lungs. 2. a device for securing unobstructed respiration. facilities and infrastructure within a designated high-impact area. SOC personnel determine when FAA actions are required due to important system interruptions and then notify Air Traffic (AT) and all appropriate users of any maintenance activities impacting the NAS. Emergin WirelessOffice is being installed as an integral component of the SOC alert and notification system A modern notification system is a combination of software and hardware that provides a means of delivering a message to a set of recipients. For example, notification systems can send an e-mail when a new topic has been added to Wikipedia. , allowing SOC staff to broadcast maintenance and emergency alerts from their desktop. "The FAA's success with wireless messaging demonstrates its effectiveness in emergency response situations," said Michael A. McNeal, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Emergin Inc. "We're pleased to assist the FAA in its emergency preparedness initiatives." The open architecture of Emergin WirelessOffice 4.0 delivers scalable, real-time wireless messaging for business and municipal applications, including law enforcement, healthcare, manufacturing facilities, call centers and educational institutions. The software supports message volumes up to and exceeding 10,000 messages per hour. As many as 1,000 wireless devices, including pagers, mobile phones, and PDAs, can be set up as one group for real-time message delivery at the push of a button. One centralized system In telecommunications, a centralized system is one in which most communications are routed through one or more major central hubs. Such a system allows certain functions to be concentrated in the system's hubs, freeing up resources in the peripheral units. provides a complete and detailed log of messages sent, received and acknowledged. Messages can be sent on an as-needed basis or for regularly scheduled reminders. Emergin and Metrocall, a distributor of Emergin, are holding a wireless symposium on how government agencies are preparing for emergency situations on Thursday, August 8th, in Williamsburg, Va. Visit http://www.emergin.com for details. About Emergin, Inc. Emergin is a leading provider of mobile middleware and applications for enterprise environments. Emergin provides the right products and solutions to help distribute time sensitive information to employees -- anywhere, anytime. Since its founding in 1995, Emergin has worked with large and small organizations to provide paging and text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. software for enterprises. Emergin's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , WirelessOffice(R), is an open, scalable and device-neutral software platform that delivers text messages to pagers, mobile phones and PDAs. Over 3,500 organizations have licensed and implemented Emergin's mobile technology. For more information, visit the company's web site at: http://www.emergin.com. |
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