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Privately Owned Company Donates Employee Time/Equipment to Mississippi Hurricane Relief Efforts
Rajant Corporation Sends Specialized Equipment to Bridge Communication Technology Gaps in Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Wayne, PA – Sept. 13, 2005 – Rajant Corporation, a wireless technology company based outside of Philadelphia, is taking an active role in aiding the relief efforts following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Jim Washington, President of Rajant Corporation and Barry McElroy, Director of Military sales have traveled to Mississippi with over $200,000 worth of specialized BreadCrumb® equipment. Jim and Barry arrived at the Hancock Medical center in Bay St. Louis on Friday morning to aid the Air National Guard Evacuation Hospital.
The specialized equipment, known as the BreadCrumb® wireless LAN, creates an instant, portable, wireless network able to operate in virtually any environment. Rajant has partnered with the Naval PostGraduate School, Eagle Design Group, Zcomax Technologies Inc., Symbol Technologies Inc., and Redline Communications, all of whom are also donating equipment and time to help with this effort.
In Bay St. Louis, emergency rescue management teams now have wireless access to the internet as well as VoIP and data coverage. The BreadCrumb® wireless LANs have enabled the EMS, Highway Patrol, and Fire Department to send and receive emails, upload reports, and update activity blogs online.
Naval Postgraduate School, Redline Communications, and Rajant have created a Wide Area Network for the use of the city. This network consists of a satellite uplink at Hancock Regional Medical Center with the WAN network extended using Redline equipment to multiple locations including the fire station and area schools. The user access at each point location was created by the Rajant BreadCrumb LAN. There have been 50-75 users utilizing the online capabilities of voice and data transmittal at any given time. These numbers are expected to rise as more people become aware of the capabilities being offered.
A second BreadCrumb LAN is extending the WiFi coverage of a satellite uplink provided by the Polk County, Florida emergency management workers. The Rajant BreadCrumb products have produced a portable, wireless network around the satellite uplink located in the parking lot of a local Wal-Mart. This wireless, meshed LAN provides extended coverage for the existing satellite communications in order to support the first response mission. The extended network provides the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, HazMat, Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), and decontamination units the necessary connectivity to communications vehicles.
“We have a responsibility as American citizens” said Robert Schena, Chairman and CEO of Rajant. “When devastation strikes, it is important to take positive action to help our fellow Americans in any way we can. Our technology provides a reliable, secure communications network that is mobile and can be set up and operational within minutes. Having communications systems up and running is crucial in creating an efficient and coordinated recovery effort.”
The BreadCrumb® wireless LAN network also provides high-level security as well as the ability to transmit information relayed through sensors attached to the network, ranging from biohazard sensing to asset tracking.
About Rajant
Rajant Corporation has developed wireless broadband systems and components that have multiple applications in homeland security, public safety, security and enterprise networking sectors. Rajant Corporation’s wireless LAN systems are portable, mobile, battery powered, self-integrating, self-meshing, self-healing, secure, 802.11 access points. The company strategy includes working with government, civilian agencies and first responder organizations to define customer needs and to identify or create funding sources for customers as well. Rajant has succeeded in developing the private sector and federal customer base. For more information please email info@rajant.com or view the company web site at www.rajant.com.
