NEWS: Articles
The SDOC and the Road to EAS CAP Compliance
Broadband Technology Report | May 10, 2012
The long road to EAS CAP compliance is in its final weeks. On June 30, cable operators must have equipment that follows the new rules.
Suppliers Ask FCC to Rethink Text-to-Speech Decision
Radio World | March 13, 2012
A group of suppliers of EAS-CAP gear and services is asking the FCC to reconsider a decision it made in its recent EAS report and order.
Signing were Sage Alerting Systems, iBiquity Digital, TFT, Monroe Electronics/Digital Alert Systems, Alerting Solutions Inc., MyStateUSA, Communications Laboratories Inc. (Comlabs) and Warning Systems Inc.
These are members of the EAS-CAP Industry Group, or ECIG. They are concerned about the FCC’s prohibition of text-to-speech on CAP receiving equipment, as well as details of CAP-EAS equipment certification requirements. The companies said their comments “represent a consensus on these key issues, taken from very diverse range of perspectives.”
GCI and the EAS CAP Deadline
Broadband Technical Report | February 15, 2012
Alaska’s cold temperatures, ferocious storms, long winters and wide open spaces create a landscape in which dissemination of emergency information is taken very seriously. EAS CAP can be a matter of life and death anywhere. It can be so more often in Alaska
EAS Test Offers Many Lessons
Radio World | December 1, 2011
Czarnecki: Let's All Pull Ourselves Together to Identify and Fix the Issues
Some people threw around the word "diaster" to describe November's national EAS test. That is wrong. The problems that occurred served a significant purpose: to point up flaws in a system so that it will work when it must.
