Broadband communications for disaster response

摘要

Emergency personnel responding to large-scale disasters like those of 9/11/2001 require rapidly deployable integrated high-capacity communications systems. This paper discusses the technical characteristics of such systems and describes one that the authors are developing under US government sponsorship. The system operates in the 28-30 GHz band, using radio technology originally developed for satellite links. We describe its important features and speculate about how it could be linked with a Ka-band satellite network.