ISI Hurricane Communications Assistance - New Orleans




Summary of the Information Systems, Inc. Project to Provide Communications to a Hurricane Devastated Region

-/October 05, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-Information Systems, Inc. (ISI), an information technology service provider specializing in data communications and security systems is providing emergency high-speed data and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wireless services, at no charge, to Hurricane Katrina's storm ravaged areas.

These communications services are providing Local government officials and emergency workers with voice communications and recovery of computer data being used by government services such as the 7th precinct of the New Orleans Police Department and other areas as described below.

When Hurricane Katrina hit, ISI knew that communications would be necessary for emergency and rescue crews to work. ISI was determined to assist and developed an emergency Wi-Fi plan within 24-hours of the Hurricane and purchased equipment at substantial discount from MCI, T3 Wireless and Allot Communications. ISI partnered with MCI to provide access to its functional communications facility in Baton Rouge and had an ISI team of six employees deployed in the area within 72 hours.

ISI was granted access to the ravaged area with help from Rescue International.

Three satellite uplinks and mobile access points for temporary communications have been deployed. They are in Rescue International's command post in Slidell, LA (primarily to assist the Tammany, LA Sheriff's Department), Slidell's First Baptist Church Tent-City (a Red Cross post) and the New Orleans Police Department's 7th precinct. The ISI team has tapped into functional MCI facilities in Baton Rouge and has installed permanent Wi-Fi facilities from that point to locations in Geismar, LA and Gramercy, LA.

ISI's Wi-Fi system is now extending to Garyville, LA. Wi-Fi equipment is being installed in the Galleria Mall (located in the North West side of New Orleans), the Folgers Coffee Plant (located in the East side of New Orleans), the 7th precinct in New Orleans and then to Slidell, LA. ISI then plans to continue marching East with their service, all the way to Mississippi.

ISI to date has expended $500,000 to seed the project which includes: purchase of eight towers, three mobile towers with portable arrays, one H-1 Hummer for a command vehicle and three 4 x 4 trucks. ISI expects this investment to triple by the end of the year.

ISI is using an Alvarion Breeze non-licensed 5.xGHz backhaul, 2.x GHz frequency hopping point-to-multipoint design, and 900 MHz for areas where 2.x will not provide optimal coverage.

Information Systems, Inc is an information technology service provider specializing in voice and data communications, security systems, TSCM, business continuity, disaster recovery task force, owned by Mirabilis Ventures, Inc.

Information Systems, Inc.
20 N. Orange Ave., 14th Floor
Orlando, FL 32801
407-517-7711