Terry Purvis of the Miller County Department of Emergency Management recently reported that during the
Deadly Train Derailment which occured in downtown Texarkana last October, that the Homeland Security Department was amazed to discover that thier E.O.C. (Emergency Operations Center) was online when they opened thier laptops.
The presence of the MESH cloud over the area where the on-site command post was set up while dealing with the disaster, allowed quick access to such online resources as ChemTrak and Union Pacific which were critical in making split second decisions that meant life or death at the time of the crisis. "Information is key" said Purvis, in a time of emergency.
Lynn has been working with American Wireless Web in Texarkana, converting much of thier existing operation to MESH technology which allows access with inexpensive off-the-shelf consumer products such as laptops and PDA's. The Miller County Courthouse in Texarkana has WiFi access throughout the entire building, The Landmark Building is also a WiFi Zone which provides coverage in the Quadrangle area downtown. More Hot Spots are showing up all the time, and MESH technology is helping to spread them out.
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