DNVR: a look into the DNC’s l33t Communications System
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Filed in Motorola, News, iDEN
Although the winner of the Barack Obama Veepstakes is still a secret (not for long), Motorola is proud to announce that it is the official two-way radio provider of the Democratic National Convention. Why the Democrats are still using two-way radios, we haven’t quite figured out … but Moto tells us that the “mission-critical communication hardware” will include more than 900 iDEN (read: Nextel) Push-to-Talk units to connect the members “smoothly and efficiently”. We guess we won’t see Joe Biden toting a Curve around Denver while clutching a Louis Vuitton bag on CelebrityBlackBerrySightings.com!
Tags: barack obama, Democrats, iDEN, Motorola, Nextel, Two-Way Radios
“Why the Democrats are still using two-way radios, we haven’t quite figured out …”
Because one-to-many is still the most efficient form of rapid security response. If a problem should arise, one security guard can instantly alert and inform 1000’s of security professionals in an instant.
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Good call, then.
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everybody knows last nigh Biden got it cnn already blurted it out Bet Romney get’s macains VP slot
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Why is it so hard to figure out why IDEN handsets with two-way radios would be the optimum solution for events like this?
Is your GSM fanboy blinders on to prevent you from understanding that you can’t email your way on your BB Bold or surf the internet enough on your iPhone to run an event like this?
One who knows what iDEN handsets can fully do would know why the obvious answer would be those handsets make the best solution. But then again, anything other than GSM was written off a long time ago on this site so I’m not surprised about the undertone with the article.
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you know this blog is filled with geeks that don’t have an ounce of testosterone in their body when they comments on the freaking article. LL in that shirt made my day.
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Although IDEN may be useful in the one to many process it is a poorly supported platform by sprint nextel, this is why most government agencies are getting off of it. It will probably work great at the dnc, due to temp infrastructure to make it work, but walk outside and the system will go into the toilet.
On a side note, events like this requiring rapid intel and smooth communications are better served by a participatory technology, not the “one to many” approach. This is not a taxi cab dispatch project, it is a national security risk. Just like the dems to leave the communications one sided!
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Go Obama/Biden 08!
I wonder if McCain even knows what radio technology is.
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