Deals digest: ING Robotic Aviation helping fight Chilean forest fires
Deals digest: ING Robotic Aviation helping fight Chilean forest fires
19 June 2013
published by www.obj.ca
USA / Chile — Orleans-based ING Robotic Aviation has sold its fixed wing unmanned aerial system to a Chilean company that will use the technology to fight forest fires in that country. ING’s aerial vehicle, called Serenity, was purchased by iFMS Chile and will be used to collect a wide range of imagery to spot forest fires. Delivery and training will begin in September, but additional details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Solacom Technologies, a Gatineau-based firm that builds defence and security communications systems, has been chosen to help build Maines next generation 9-1-1 solution. Service provider FairPoint Communications selected Solacom to implement, support and supply equipment for the state of Maines new public safety network which will serve more than 1.3 million residents. Financial details were not disclosed, but FairPoint was awarded a five-year contract worth $32 million last December to implement the entire project. Twenty-six public safety answering points throughout the state, as well as one training centre, will receive new Solacom workstations that equip telecommunications with IP desktops for responding to 9-1-1 calls.
One of the worlds leading open source communities, Eclipse, will now use Granite Networks as its primary data centre facility. Granite Networks is an Ottawa-based data centre operator with a facility designed to Tier 3 standards. Eclipse membership includes BlackBerry, BMW, Google, Nokia and other big names. Those members collaborate on commercially friendly open source software.
BTI Systemss software is heading to Singapore after being selected by Equinix Inc. to interconnect its data centres across that country. Equinix, a global interconnection and data centre, will use BTI Systemss technology to connect its total of 347,000 square feet of colocation space across Singapore. Using BTI Systemss technology, Equinix is able to offer 20 per cent more capacity and 15 per cent less power consumption to its data centre customers, according to the company.
