THE DEMONSTRATION

What will happen? Organizations and individuals participating in Strong Angel III are volunteering their time and resources to explore innovations in humanitarian response capabilities. This is not a trade show or a technology fair, with vendor booths, demos, and product literature. Nor is it an Exercise in the usual sense, with teams of first responders and a highly-scripted scenario. Instead, SA-III will focus on simulating those aspects of post-disaster conditions that specifically impact communication, information sharing, and coordination. The week-long demonstration will consist of a series of collaborative technical and non-technical experiments based on both lessons learned in past disasters and on emerging requirements for integrated operations. They are designed to test the interoperability, reliability, and flexibility of proposed social and technical solutions. Strong Angel III is a chance for vendors, humanitarian practitioners, First Responders, the military, and community leaders to explore capabilities, inter-operability, usability, and deployment with the specific intent that the solutions proposed be accessible globally. Strong Angel will provide an adverse environment designed to maximize learning, sharing and experimentation.

Activities?  Western DataCom will be participating with its ComCase T2 product demonstrating IP Mobility using Voice over IP with GPS Tracking and CDMA/Satcom reach back.  The ComCase T2 is an integrated solution that contains a Cisco Mobile Router, Western DataCom IPE-10M, MobileCom and GPS reciever.  In addition the T2 also incorporates a Single Board Computer (SBC) running Twisted Pair WAVE software.  The testing will show the ability to bring an infrastructure online in minutes with the added ability to provide communications for a variety of IP telephone and analog radios.