Tait News

The Great Commission

July 2, 2013

A look back on 25 years of commissioning MPT Trunked networks around the world.
By Jason Cox, Senior System Manager, Tait Communications.

My first real commissioning trip was to China in the early 90s. We were providing MPT 1327 networks to the Gong An (Chinese Civil Police). The first Tait MPT networks used an EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) to store all of the programmable parameters and firmware.

These EPROMs needed special programmers to program them, and they needed to be reprogrammed every time you made a change. Luckily, EPROMs were erasable. Unluckily,... Continue Reading

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When three is better than one — combining the powers of public and private networks

June 13, 2013

Anyone who has experienced first-hand a disaster like a severe storm or earthquake will distinctly remember those fleeting moments directly after the event — grabbing your cell-phone to call your family and hoping like crazy you’d reach them, knowing full well you might only have a few minutes before the public cellular network overloads from everyone else doing the exact same thing. The inability to contact loved ones is heart-wrenching, and it’s the not knowing that causes panic in a community — and where chaos... Continue Reading

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Managed Services — Success is deciding what not to do

June 11, 2013

By Judd Cain, Executive VP Global Managed Services, Tait Communications.


“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.” —Steve Jobs, 1997
Most organizations begin with a small group of passionate and committed people who pull together to manage the whole array of business functions that need to be handled for... Continue Reading

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Choice: The Force Multiplier for Public Safety

June 4, 2013

By Geoff Peck, Technology and Solution Architect, Tait Communications.

 

There’s a line in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, where 007’s tech support guy, Q, says:
“I can get more done in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey, working on my laptop, than you can do in the field in a year.”
Daniel Craig’s character may be fictional, but the situation he finds himself in is a stark reality. Today, policing is just as much about cops being “connected” as it is about cops on the street. Continue Reading

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Get connected to critical comms experts: get Connection

May 29, 2013

by Martin Deakin, Editor, Connection Magazine.

James Bond, Hurricane Sandy and Steve Jobs all feature in the latest edition of our online magazine, Connection.

Connection is a collection of educational and thought-leading articles focusing on critical communications, wireless and radio technology. It’s a free, biannual magazine that reaches over 90,000 global industry professionals written by industry experts.

And this edition is also available on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices, too.

We’ve listened to the great feedback from our readers and... Continue Reading

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Products and Solutions update

Life-Saving Underwear – A Fire-Fighter’s Intelligent Vest

January 29, 2013

It’s not often that underwear makes the national TV news – but a vest that uses Bluetooth® to help save fire-fighter’s lives isn’t your usual news story.

Though it sounds like science fiction, there’s a vest that can monitor the heart rate, breathing rate, activity level and movement, core body temperature, stress levels and posture of anyone that wears it.

Not only that, but it can sound alerts when sudden changes in these measurements occur, give location information via GPS and is lightweight and machine washable! Continue Reading

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Going Agile to get Innovation and Manufacturing Moving with WIKISPEED!

October 4, 2012

Today’s consumers  are always hungry for the latest new product and they want it now, or preferably yesterday—technology, entertainment, clothes, widgets, gadgets, food, you name it, now is good!

Consumer expectations are driving new ways of working and producing rapid innovation in many industries.

For companies like us here at Tait, with traditionally long product development cycles, being innovative in the way we approach product development is key to meeting the needs of our customers’ ever changing world. Continue Reading

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Students Head South for the Summer

September 25, 2012

Every summer there’s a southern hemisphere phenomenon: we open our doors to the the crème-de-la-crème of undergraduates as part of our ongoing mission to nurture the next generation of industry pioneers!

We’re one of New Zealand’s major exporters and have a worldwide customer-base. Playing on a global stage means keeping our advantage, and that demands innovation – so where better to source new thinking than in the minds of the industry’s ‘next big things’?

Competition for places is tough; we typically only entertain applications from students in the top... Continue Reading

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Tait used as Case Study for Innovative Design Thinking

September 11, 2012

The concept of design thinking refers to a structured, versatile, and user-centred approach in order to successfully generate innovations, starting from the development of new products and services all the way to new fully fledged business models.

On the 14th and 15th of September, Tait will be the main subject of a case study which will be held by lecturers from the department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Business University in Vienna, in conjunction with a Design Thinking exhibition at  the MAK museum (museum of... Continue Reading

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