Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Cell Tower In A Suitcase: How Sonim’s “Rapid Deployment Kit” Saves Lives”.
A portion of this video is sponsored by Surfshark. Cell towers. Over the past 30 years, they’ve become so commonplace. You probably don’t even see them anymore, but without them your smartphone is basically just a glorified wifi tablet. In past videos.
I’Ve shown you how cell sites can be hidden in plain sight in places like church steeples or built to withstand the worst weather in North America at the top of a mountain.. Today, I’m gon na show you how a cell tower can be packed into a suitcase and how doing so can help save lives. ( mellow electronic music ). Okay, to understand why the Sonim Rapid Deployment Kit exists. You first need to understand why FirstNet was formed. And the clearest way to do that is to revisit one of the darkest days in the history of the city of Boston.. In the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, it was nearly impossible to make a phone call in downtown Boston.. Speculation ran rampant that the police or the wireless carriers had turned off the networks to foil any additional phone triggered bombs themselves. But that’s not what happened., The cellular networks were just overloaded by the sheer number of people trying to connect all at once. The resulting loss of communications made life harder, not just for ordinary folks, but for emergency workers as well.. This problem and problems like it facing emergency communications were recognized well before the marathon bombing of course..
In fact, the FirstNet Authority had been established the year before, but it took until 2017 for that agency to finalize a partnership with AT .