Priority paging channel
Published: 01 September, 2008
PageOne, the UK’s leading messaging technology company, has launched a free-of-charge, dedicated priority paging channel for blue-light emergency applications.
While paging is already used extensively to deliver real time information in a cost effective manner to staff in both the public and private sectors, before now both emergency and non-emergency messages had shared the same networks.
Pulse, said PageOne CEO Chris Jones, is about adding an extra dimension of peace of mind to an already extremely resilient network. “Diversifying an organisation’s paging and mobile network providers plays a crucial part in ensuring resilient communications in times of public crisis.”
Jones clarifies that Pulse does not seek to increase the speed of delivery – which will continue to be less than 30 seconds – but adds that the service guarantees priority and bandwidth in abnormal traffic periods. “Emergency messages will be prioritised in the event of a local organisational crisis, automatically, at any time of the day.”
Organisations that require faster paging messages will have the option of a new service called Fastpage, which typically halves times to less than 15 seconds and can be combined with Pulse to guarantee both enhanced speed and prioritisation.
