The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) provides premier communication systems that enable the President and the Presidential staff to lead the Nation efficiently. The Agency provides worldwide audiovisual, voice, and data communications support for the President, Vice President, Presidential Emissaries, White House staff, the United States Secret Service, and others as directed by the White House Military Office.

CTC had the pleasure of helping the White House Communications Agency, a military office, provide secure and reliable Internet and Network services during one of President Bush's stays in Kansas City. In fact it was a visit to the Hyatt Hotel that prompted the first use of the Aircore High Reliability Wireless Ring, a joint project of CTC Wireless, CRC Wireless and the Bryant Building.

But don't take our word for it. Below is a feature story written by Charlie Anderson Technology Reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal:

September 10-16, 2004 Kansas City Business Journal (reprinted with permission)

Bush's visit puts wireless Internet through a test

One of the biggest question marks in the wireless Internet business is reliability. But is it reliable enough for President Bush? Entrepreneur Graeme Gibson got the opportunity to answer that Sept.6th, when Bush and his team rolled into the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, where Gibson's company beams a high-speed Internet connection from wireless transmitters.

"I'm happy to report it worked like a gem," said Gibson, CEO of Independence-based Computers & Tele-Comm Inc. But that's only because of some late scrambling to meet the president's requirement of speed of 3 megabytes a second with backup reliability. Gibson had no problem with the first. He gave Bush's team a connection at 45 megabytes a second "because we can," he said, but didn't have a backup wireless signal to hop onto if his went down.

That required CTC to accelerate an agreement with Kansas City-based Custom Radio Communications Ltd.
Custom Radio Communications, a 25 year old company that uses licensed radio spectrum to provide signals for police and school buses, beams a wireless signal on many of the same rooftops as CTC. About a year ago, the two companies began talking about a partnership so that if one signal faded, the data could hop onto the other company's network.

When Gibson got word Sept. 2 of the president's campaign stop, engineers from both companies worked through the next day to launch the backup signal. "We kind of worked rapidly," said Dennis Laughlin, general manager of CRC. Mark Champa, vice president of sales at the Hyatt, said the president's advance team arrived Sept. 2 and set up a communications center in the 1,500-square-foot Van Horn Ballroom.
Gibson said Bush and his team came armed with software that allow White House officials to surf the Internet on a private connection. "It was definitely an interesting first client," he said.

-- Charlie Anderson

 

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