[January 21, 2013]

Cassidian Communications to Attend 2013 CALNENA 9-1-1 Mission Critical Training Event and Roll Out New VESTA® 4.0 and Sentinel® 4.0 NG9-1-1 Systems

Cassidian Communications, an EADS (News - Alert) North America company, will participate in the 2013 CALNENA Mission Critical Training event, taking place January 23-24 in San Diego, Calif. Cassidian Communications will provide hands-on demonstrations of the new VESTA^® 4.0 and Sentinel^® 4.0 NG9-1-1 communications systems. Registered attendees will be among the first to share in the company's long-term vision for integrated, geospatial multimedia public safety communications.

"Being a corporate resident of California and a leader in public safety communications for well over 40 years, the CALNENA event is important to our team," said Bob Freinberg, CEO of Cassidian Communications. "With nearby San Diego as the venue, we have a special opportunity to spend time with many in-state customers, potential customers and technology partners. CALNENA is the perfect forum for us to demonstrate exactly how and why CRITICAL MATTERS™, as conveyed in our new branding, plus showcase our all-new VESTA 4.0 and Sentinel 4.0 call processing systems for the first time in 2013."

Visitors to Cassidian Communications' booth #205 will see the highly configurable and vastly intuitive user interfaces (UIs) of these critical systems, considered to be a primary building block within the company's next generation public safety communications platform. This platform is a foundational component of Cassidian Communications' next generation public safety communications ecosystem, which encompasses 9-1-1 call routing and call processing, mapping, MIS and analytics, emergency notification, P25 land mobile radio and LTE (News - Alert), and managed services, including real-time monitoring and response and disaster recovery.

"The VESTA 4.0 and Sentinel 4.0 NG9-1-1 systems enable public safety answering points (PSAPs) to take a crucial first step on the path toward integrated, geospatial multimedia communications," said Jeff Wittek, Cassidian Communications' Chief Strategic Officer."They also provide our customers invaluable investment protection during this time of rapid technological change."

In addition to the VESTA 4.0 and Sentinel 4.0 systems, Cassidian Communications plans to demonstrate its Aurora^® management information system (MIS) solution, the ORION^™ Vela^® geospatial application and The Communicator!^® NXT^™ and GeoCast^® Web^™ emergency notification products. Representatives will also be on hand to discuss the company's COR^P25 land mobile radio solution, most recently adopted by the city of Montréal, Canada, as well as its long term evolution (LTE) devices and applications.

Registered attendees are encouraged to take part in the four workshop sessions Cassidian Communications will sponsor. These are entitled: The Next Generation Public Safety Communications Ecosystem; NG9-1-1 GIS from the Ground Up; Advanced Hosted PSAP Solutions and The Next Generation PSAP.

The 2013 CALNENA 9-1-1 Mission Critical Training Conference will take place at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. All registered attendees are eligible to win "My Work Number is 9-1-1" blankets and noise cancelling headphones provided by Cassidian Communications during the vendor hall raffle. To view the full agenda or to register for the event, visit http://2013calnenatraining.eventbrite.com/ ref=elink.

"On behalf of everyone at Cassidian Communications, we look forward to seeing many of you, our valued customers, during next week's CALNENA event," said Freinberg. "What better place than our own backyard of San Diego to share with you our vision for the future and learn more about what it means to your public safety operation and ultimately, the people you serve."

About Cassidian Communications, where CRITICAL MATTERS™

Cassidian Communications, an EADS North America company, is the world's largest and most reliable source for NG9-1-1 and emergency notification, and an up and coming leader in P25 land mobile radio and LTE. For over four decades, Cassidian Communications has upheld its promise to keep people connected when it matters most, consistently designing solutions with an open mind and creating smarter ways to ensure all communities are safe. Today, the company supports more than 60% of all U.S. Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), serving 200+ million people, as well as hundreds of private sector businesses spanning 20 different industries, including transportation, finance and healthcare, and Federal (DoD and civil) operations globally. The company is headquartered in Temecula, Calif., with facilities located in Richardson (News - Alert), Texas, Franklin, Tenn., and Gatineau, Quebec.

About EADS North America

EADS North America is the U.S.-based operation of EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defense, and related services. EADS contributes more than $13 billion to the U.S. economy annually and supports over 225,000 American jobs through its network of suppliers. EADS North America, headquartered in Herndon, Va., offers a broad array of advanced solutions to meet U.S. military and commercial requirements, including fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, homeland security systems, public safety communications, defense electronics and avionics, and threat detection systems.

About CALNENA

The purpose of CALNENA is to foster a reliable and continuously improved emergency telephone number network through research, planning, training and education; represent its members before communications regulatory agencies and policy making bodies; and strive toward citizens having immediate access to emergency public safety services so that safety of human life, protection of property and civic welfare are benefited to the utmost degree.

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