Other ECVs
AT&T NDR Emergency Communications Vehicle.
September 2005.
- Network Disaster Recovery Team also uses its mobile satellite capabilities to provide communications support for humanitarian relief efforts. This is accomplished by establishing satellite links to the AT&T Network for use by relief organizations and government agencies. The AT&T Emergency Communications Vehicles (ECVs) may also be deployed to provide calling capability for people isolated from their normal communications channels due to widespread disasters and/or evacuations.
U.N.'s Instant Communications Center
- Each of the more than 25 MDTS platforms is a self-sustained unit with its own power generator and satellite-communications station. "In the MDTS you find a compendium of all the equipment you would normally find in any communications center: file and mail servers Relevant Products/Services, a firewall, a PBX [private telephone exchange], and a radio repeater are all built into a Ford Econoline vehicle," Bergeron said. "It looks just like a minivan, except for the satellite antenna mounted on the vehicle's trailer."