Twisted Pair Connects Cell Phone Users to Radio Networks with WAVE 5.0

Twisted Pair Solutions (News - Alert), a maker of Radio-over-IP technologies and the provider of WAVE unified group communications software, announced Mobile Communicator for BlackBerry (News - Alert) as part of WAVE 5.0.

 

This will allow users to connect mobile device to a WAVE-supported radio channel. This is also available to BlackBerry users for radio communications.

 

WAVE (News - Alert) 5.0 is the next version of Twisted Pair Solutions’ Radio-over-IP (RoIP) platform for integrating disparate radio systems and other communications technologies and applications into a single, manageable standards-based solution.

“As the capabilities of smartphone devices have advanced, our customers and partners have asked us to extend the WAVE software technology platform to better leverage the utility and cost advantages of these devices,” explains Tom Guthrie, President and CEO for Twisted Pair. “With WAVE 5.0, we’ve responded with a platform that allows users to securely extend the scope of their legacy radio systems with WAVE smartphone clients. This enables our partners to develop a wide variety of clients as enhancements to their WAVE-powered products and solutions.”

 

Mobile Communicator for BlackBerry uses WAVE Thin Client technology to create a  new architecture for radio communications across cellular and WiFi (News - Alert) networks, and is like two applications in one. It can be used to communicate on a WAVE channel like two-way radio as part of a larger radio network. It can also be used to make secure, point-to-point calls between two devices across any network. Mobile Communicator-enabled BlackBerry user, gets the connection in both the cases, when clocked in or off a radio network grid. Also, BlackBerry owners can add value to radio conversations at unprecedented times, off-duty or offline.

 

Mobile Communicator for BlackBerry is an application built on the WAVE Thin Client Platform, combining the power and high security and encryption of the WAVE engine with communications protocol.

 

The mobile devices have shown significant  growth in their performance, but lack the processing power of even the smallest PC. The Mobile Communicator for BlackBerry application is wirelessly connected to a WAVE engine securely hosted on a server on the customers’ IP network. By offloading audio processing of the WAVE Engine to a server, the application can be lightweight and still provide clear audio.

 

“This is all about providing customers choice and flexibility,” said Guthrie. “WAVE is focused on extending access to and the life of private, isolated radio systems – in a manner that is secure and manageable. With the WAVE Thin Client Platform, even more options can be provided to users of critical, group communications. WAVE software frees organizations to make choices that fit their operations; it provides a green light to otherwise slow and heavy planning around fears of incompatibility.”