Critical Infrastructure and WAVE

Interoperable Communications

BE PREPARED

WAVE CONNECTS CRITICAL FACILITIES

Modern society relies on an interwoven network of facilities

In an emergency, critical facilities' dispatchers must quickly

and services. This Critical Infrastructure ­ telecommunications,

integrate their communications systems with first responders.

energy, finance, transportation, air and sea ports, water

The WAVE Dispatch CommunicatorTM software console

systems, hospitals, and other key facilities ­ must be kept

connects different radio systems with a mouse click. You

secure and operational. Disasters, both natural and man-

don't need to swap radios ­ WAVE connects in seconds

made, threaten these vulnerable points of our interconnected

with your responders' radios. Configurations for multi-agency

world. Though critical infrastructure facilities exist within

responses can be pre-tested and stored for instant recall

overlapping local, regional, and national jurisdictions, each

during emergencies, or created on the fly. Patching a new

has its own communications procedures and equipment.

radio system works exactly the same as connecting the

radios you use every day.

In a crisis, critical facilities must open lines of communication

with their various protectors, regulators, and communities.

WAVE adapts to serious incidents, letting phones, cell

This is typically done by swapping radio handsets.

phones, and PCs join the radio talk group under the control of

Pressured plant operators must sometimes learn to use

your dispatchers. In a crisis, WAVE ensures the survivability of

new communications equipment while simultaneously trying

your communications infrastructure by allowing radio dispatch

to handle an emergency. Instead, what if your everyday

to work from a remote location, including a portable PC in a

communications system was able to instantly scale up and

situation van.

absorb all the different communications devices in play during

WAVE can also perform outbound phone calling for Emergency

an emergency?

Notification Alerts, and can simultaneously message staff,

INTRODUCING WAVE FOR LMR

security, agencies, and family members via radios, phones,

A comprehensive, flexible, and affordable interoperability

and loudspeakers.

solution exists. Twisted Pair Solutions' WAVE for LMRTM

WAVE IS SECURE, RELIABLE, AND MASSIVELY SCALABLE

works with your current equipment and connects any

WAVE was built for secure, reliable, and survivable

phone or radio from any manufacturer. WAVE for LMR is a

communications. WAVE Media Servers are fault-tolerant,

software application that uses data networks to create group

and can be dispersed among separate facilities and linked

communications between organizations. WAVE supports any

together. WAVE is secured against unauthorized access and

UHF, VHF, P25, TETRA, iDEN, SELCAL, GSTAR, analog, and

misuse, supports PIN-based authentication, and can encrypt

digital two-way radios, landline phones, cell phones, soft

VoIP and network control traffic. WAVE meets US Department

phones, IP phones, PDAs, and users with PCs. WAVE can

of Homeland Security requirements for interoperability and

bridge communications between different groups, regardless

integration, and is used worldwide by critical facilities,

of the type of equipment they each use.

public safety, and defense agencies with the most stringent

security.

WAVE scales to support the largest organizations and

incidents. There is no real limit to the number of audio

endpoints that can join a WAVE conference. A WAVE Media

Server can support dozens of audio conversations. Multiple

Media Servers can be interconnected, providing coverage for

larger talk groups and wider geographic areas while efficiently

utilizing network bandwidth. Your organization will never

outgrow WAVE.