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News Release from: Ascom Wireless Solutions | Subject: Group Enhanced Messaging
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Broadcast and multicast messaging
capabilities
Ascom Wireless Solutions is to provide customers with the latest broadcast and multicast messaging capabilities through its Group Enhanced Messaging (GEM) feature package.
Leading on-site wireless communications provider, Ascom Wireless Solutions, is to provide customers in industry, healthcare and within correctional institutions with the latest broadcast and multicast messaging capabilities through its Group Enhanced Messaging (GEM) feature package This new and improved functionality will provide additional value, which will ensure that messages are distributed and received far quicker and guaranteeing vital communications are maintained, particularly during emergencies, or situations where an immediate response is required from groups of individuals like trauma teams, prison guards or security personnel
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Other additions include dedicated alarm and messaging channels, which also make up the GEM package, designed to provide quick, reliable and secure wireless communications.
"This type of broadcast and multicast messaging functionality designed for on-site wireless communications is the first of its kind and is designed specifically with safety and quicker response in mind, " explained Stefan Bramberg, Head of RandD for Ascom Wireless Solutions.
"It means that messages or alarms can be received by groups of individuals simultaneously, without delay and without confusion - crucial in a life threatening situation like a fire, a prison disturbance or a patient needing resuscitation." Most DECT systems distribute a message to a group of handsets one after the other.
The broadcast function in the GEM package delivers one message - which can be a general or an emergency message like a fire alarm - to all DECT handsets simultaneously, which means each member of staff receives the same message within 10 seconds.
The message can also be repeated twice without the system being adversely affected.
Multicast allows messages to be sent to pre-defined groups of users - from 2 up to 100 handsets simultaneously - yet when you send a single message to a large group, it only loads the system as if it was one message to a single handset.
Multicast is especially critical in situations requiring immediate response from groups, like trauma teams and cardiac specialist in hospitals, guards in prisons and other correctional institutions, or security personnel across almost any industry sector.
The message can include a dial number to a voice conference bridge or quick conference set-up or include interactive messaging options.
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