Posts Tagged ‘CMAS’

• Mass Notification and Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Compliancy

  • August 23rd, 2012
  • Posted in ARK Systems, Early Warning Systems, Mass Notification Systems, Public Alerts, Security Trends
  • Tags: ARK Systems, CMAS, common alerting protocol, connecting multiple mass notification systems, effective warning messages, emergency alert notifications, IPAWS

  The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) provides a general format for broadcasting emergency alert notifications over varying networks, allowing for a consistent message to be disseminated over many different warning systems. This is beneficial for several reasons, including: Continuity: As we… Read More

• CMAS: The End of SMS Text Alerting as We Know It?

  • March 18th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, Broadcast technology, Campuses SMS, CMAS, Emergency, End of SMS texting, Inc., prioritized database, SMS Text Alerting, Texting Maryland

  The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) will be available in 2012, but it will come with some limitations. According to this article, campuses and other institutions use SMS messaging to get alerts out now, yet this could change. Campuses have… Read More

• Commercial Mobile Alert System

  • March 11th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, CMAS, Commercial Mobile Alert System, commercial mobile service, emergecy cell phone alerts, FCC, FEMA

    The Commercial Mobile Alert System, otherwise known as the CMAS, is said to go into effect in 2012. According to this article, this system is supposed to eliminate the throughput/ network traffic challenges that are caused by many SMS… Read More