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Viodi View Newsletter – September 14, 2005

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By Ken Pyle, [email protected], Managing Editor, Viodi View

The mass destruction of the communications infrastructure through the combination of wind, flood and resulting loss of electricity presented a major challenge to hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. The aftermath of hurricane Katrina points to the importance of providing tools for first responders which allow them to create self-discovering, ad-hoc communications’ networks that require as little of the existing infrastructure as possible. If First Responders would have had this capability, lives probably could have been saved.

“One of the lessons coming out of Katrina is that we have to adopt new technology more rapidly”, so says J. Keith Money, Chief Operational Officer of F4W (Freedom 4 Wireless). F4W is providing solutions for the Coast Guard’s hurricane Katrina clean-up efforts. Money went on to characterize the environmental problems as perhaps being the worst in U.S. history. For instance, more oil has been lost because of this disaster is greater than what was lost in the Exxon Valdez fiasco.

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Thanks to Packet8 for powering this video.

F4W has deployed a wireless IP network, capable of handling voice, data and video. The interesting thing about this story is that F4W initially contacted Packet8 about adding the Packet8 VoIP service to their networks. Subsequently, an anonymous Packet8 shareholder donated 100 Packet8 VideoPhones and associated two year service plans. This amounts to a donation of over $100,000 over the course of the service contract.

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