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Ottawa and Saline County are the first two PSAPs to be migrated to the ESInet in 2019. 2018 was a very busy year with the Kansas hosted system deployments. 91 Sites were turned up since the first deployment in 2015 on the hosted call handling platforms (included PSAP’s, Yoder Test Center and 2 backup PSAP’s)…
911 Sub-Grant Award Notification Update November 6, 2019
November 6, 2019 The Kansas 911 Coordinating Council has awarded 30 grants, totaling $1,800,000 and supporting 36 different PSAPs. This is the full amount of the Federal Grant for this subgrant project. It is possible that the actual funds used by the awardees will total less than their grant applications. Should that happen, any remaining…
AT&T and RapidDeploy Announcement
The Kansas 911 Coordinating Council has authorized the replacement of the current Vesta Locate call handling mapping application with RapidDeploy Radius Plus Mapping and Nimbus Cloud Aided Dispatch (CAD). The inclusion of these cloud-based products into the Statewide NG911 System will provide many new features and capabilities. AT&T and RapidDeploy collaborate to deliver full suite…
Smith County Go Live October 17, 2019
Smith County’s 911 Director Chad Meyer in the attached photo for the 94th Hosted 911 system Smith Co purchased an Avaya phone system from AT&T which was installed prior to cut and integrated to the Vesta on the cut-over day. The AT&T Tiger Team had to install the 911 rack in the hallway prior to…
Graham County Live on the Statewide Call Handling System
We cut Graham County 911 Live 7/15/2020. Per Terry McLarty’s spreadsheet they are the 102nd site cut live, less Yoder, AMR, Salina-Shawnee-Sedgwick backups that puts them at the 97th PSAP that went live. Michele Carpenter is the 911 lead supervisor in the attached photo, she was great to work with. Cole Presley is the Sheriff…
Google Implements New 9-1-1 Feature on Android Devices
Google is implementing a new 911 feature on Android devices. As soon as it is released I will be testing the feature and will keep you informed on how this may affect your PSAP. A link to the article is below. https://www.rrmediagroup.com/News/NewsDetails/newsID/18538