Rajant, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and recipient of Triple Platinum Homeland Security Awards in American Security Today’s 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards, is pleased to announce the company was recognized with a prestigious industry ‘Leadership & Innovation’ award.
Rajant’s Peregrine LTE BreadCrumb® was named the “Best Wireless Video Surveillance Network” and “Best New Intelligent Communication Product of the Year”.
These honors mark the third year in a row Rajant radio nodes have been distinguished for enabling highly mobile IoT applications for public safety and security.
Rajant Corporation’s BreadCrumb® ES1 was honored as the “Best Wireless Network Security Solution”, and in 2021, its BreadCrumb® Hawk Series was named the “Best Wireless Video Surveillance Network”.
(Making an accurate lifesaving decision depends on the complete picture of what’s going on. That’s where Rajant Kinetic Mesh comes in. For public safety and security, Rajant enables mission-critical connectivity for drone deployments, robot observations, LPR cameras, video surveillance, body wearables, and more. Having the information based on facts, firefighters, police, and officers serving our country are safeguarded with the ability to observe danger remotely and in real time. Courtesy of Rajant and YouTube.)
The Peregrine LTE is Rajant’s top-tier performance BreadCrumb equipped with LTE capabilities. It allows fully mobile machine-to-machine, peer-to-peer communications to experience low latency and high throughput by routing packets directly in the field and relaying them through the LTE core.
By combining the long range of LTE with the reliability and agility of Rajant’s patented InstaMesh® protocol, the Peregrine LTE can integrate Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh wireless networks with both carrier-based LTE and private LTE for high-capacity LTE links for video streaming and bandwidth-hungry applications.
Ideal for real-time data transfer required for autonomous applications, robotics, and live video streaming, with military-grade security features, the Peregrine LTE employs any-node to any-node communications to ensure no single point of failure and extreme reliability required for safety and security situations.
(Learn More from Rajant engineers on how they continually enhance the integrity of Rajant’s hardware designs and ensure manufacturability, to keep components running at optimal performance in long-term use. You’ll learn why Rajant has earned numerous awards from key customers, for delivering reliable, safe, and valuable wireless networking solutions. Courtesy of Rajant and YouTube.)
The American Security Today (AST) ‘ASTORS’ Awards, now entering its eighth year, is specifically designed to honor notable government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit, and intelligence to end-users in various government, homeland security, enterprise, and public safety vertical markets.
According to Tammy Waitt, AST’s Editorial Director, “ASTORS’ nominations are evaluated on their technical innovation, interoperability, specific impact within the category, the overall impact to the industry, relatability to other industry technologies, and application feasibility outside of the industry.”
Rajant received its three 2022 ASTORS during AST’s exclusive sold-out event on the opening day of ISC East in New York City on November 16th, 2022.
More than two hundred guests gathered to celebrate the award recipients and honor the selfless service of those who stand on the front lines. Together, they provide the capabilities and technologies to create a safer world for future generations.
Present to receive the ‘ASTORS’ awards was Rajant’s VP of Global Marketing, Ms. Alice DiSanto.
“Rajant was founded two decades ago on a vision for unfailing wireless networking under the most adverse of conditions, and the technology’s creation directly correlates to our nation’s 9/11 tragedy,” explained Ms. DiSanto.
“We are grateful to AST for its continued three-year recognition of our BreadCrumb radios – ES1, Hawk, and Peregrine LTE – and now the distinction for our organization’s “Leadership & Innovation.”
Like all Rajant products, the three BreadCrumb models honored with an ‘ASTORS’ Award have been purpose-built for first responders to overcome the complex challenges of enabling rapid, real-time communications on the go.”
(Learn more about how Rajant’s Newest BreadCrumbs Take Flight: the Peregrine and Hawk. Courtesy of Rajant and YouTube.)
Rajant is the broadband communications technology company that invented Kinetic Mesh® networking, BreadCrumb® wireless nodes, and InstaMesh® networking software.
With Rajant, customers can rapidly deploy a highly adaptable and scalable network that leverages the power of real-time data to deliver on-demand, mission-critical business intelligence.
A low-latency, high-throughput, and secure solution for a variety of data, voice, video, and autonomous applications, Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh networks provide industrial customers with full mobility, allowing them to take their private network applications and data anywhere.
(Wireless broadband has become a necessary part of everyone’s life. Transformative as water and electricity to the vibrancy of daily living, businesses, governments, schools, and households cannot function in a “digital desert” without the Internet. Hear how collaboration and understanding can drive connectivity to underserved and unserved areas of the United States’ Appalachian Region. Courtesy of Rajant and YouTube.)
With successful deployments in more than 75 countries for customers in military, mining, ports, rail, oil & gas, petrochemical plants, municipalities, and agriculture. Rajant Corporation is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with additional facilities and offices in Arizona and Kentucky.
To Learn More, please visit Rajant.com or follow Rajant on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Rajant Corporation a Triple Winner in the 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program
American Security Today’s Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program, and now entering it’s Eighth Year, continues to recognize industry leaders of Physical and Border Security, Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness – Management and Response, Law Enforcement, First Responders, as well as federal, state and municipal government agencies in the acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to Keep our Nation Secure.
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Peregrine LTE BreadCrumb
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The Peregrine LTE is part of Rajant’s initiative to develop deeply integrated solutions that securely combine data from connected people, vehicles, machines, and sensors, with machine learning (ML).
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This go-anywhere connectivity is ideally suited for first responder patrol vehicles and pop-up emergency command centers, and this BreadCrumb® radio offers multiple frequencies to avoid interference and network congestion.
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Adding an LTE client to Rajant’s machine-to-machine enabling Kinetic Mesh® network brings connected mobility and mission-critical coverage anywhere that is high bandwidth and low latency for real-time intelligence exchange.
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The Rajant Peregrine LTE BreadCrumb® is Rajant’s latest quad transceiver industrial-grade, high-performance BreadCrumb. The Peregrine LTE supports a maximum combined data rate of 2.6 Gbps and up to 6X enhanced throughput performance over existing BreadCrumbs.
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It offers LTE capabilities, multiple MIMO radio interfaces, high throughput, and enhanced security performance with up to 256-QAM and 80 MHz channels.
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Rajant’s Peregrine LTE BreadCrumb was also recognized with a 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Best New Intelligent Communication Product of the Year.
(Introducing the Peregrine LTE, one of Rajant’s newest industrial-grade high-performance BreadCrumb platforms that offer dual MIMO transceivers, up to 1.7Gbps aggregated data rate, higher throughput, and enhanced security performance. Courtesy of Rajant and YouTube.)
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*AST was delighted to welcome Rajant Corporation, a Returning ‘ASTORS’ Award Champion, as a Premier Awards Sponsor in the 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.
Homeland Security remains at the forefront of our national conversation as we experience an immigration crisis along our southern border and crime rates that are dramatically higher than before the Pandemic across the United States.
These challenges have become a national priority with an influx of investments in innovative new technologies and systems.
Enter American Security Today, the #1 publication and media platform in the Government Security and Homeland Security fields, with a circulation of over 75,000 readers and many tens of thousands more who visit our AST website at www.americansecuritytoday.com each month.
The pinnacle of the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Ceremony Luncheon Banquet, an exclusive, full-course plated meal event, in the heart of New York City.
This year’s exclusive sold-out ‘ASTORS’ luncheon featured representatives of law enforcement, public safety, and industry leaders who came together to honor the selfless service of those who stand on the front lines, and those who stand beside them – providing the capabilities and technologies to create a safer world for generations to come.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which came out in force, to discuss comprehensive collaborations between private and public sectors that have led to the development of intelligence and technologies which serve to protect our nation.
The continually evolving ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program emphasized the trail of Accomplished Women in Leadership in 2022, as well as the Significance and Positive Impact of Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in our Next Generation of Government and Industry Leaders.
The keynote address was provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner (DEAC) Diane Sabatino, who described the changes to CBP through the tragedy of 9/11 and the relentless commitment to its mission and ongoing investment in the latest technologies and innovations to protect our borders and Homeland.
The resounding theme of the DEAC’s remarks was her pride in the women and men of the CBP and their families who support them.
AST was also joined by Legendary Police Commissioner William Bratton, who spoke, as always, about his love for the City of New York, the Profession of law enforcement to which he has dedicated his life, and for which he continues to drive thought leadership and innovation.
New York City Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Department Kenneth Corey, came out to address Luncheon attendees and shared some of his experiences and the changes in policing he’s witnessed over his more than three decades of service.
FDNY Chief Joseph Jardin honored the men and women of the FDNY, not only those who currently serve but all of those who have selflessly served, with a special recognition of those lost on 9/11.
Chief Jardin spoke about the continuing health battle of many following 9/11 with cancer and respiratory disease, yet now knowing the full consequences, would not have made a different decision to respond.
As Chief Jardin noted, mission-driven service is in the lifeblood of every firefighter, volunteer and sworn and has been so throughout the history of the Fire Service.
Former head of the FBI’s active shooter program, Katherine Schweit joined AST to sign complimentary copies of her book, ‘STOP THE KILLING: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis,’ thanks to the generosity of our 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Sponsors.
The 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program was Proudly Sponsored by NEC National Security Systems (NSS), ATI Systems, Automatic Systems of America, guardDog AI, Fortior Solutions, IPVideo Corporation, Rajant Corporation, RX Global, and SIMS Software!
We were pleased to welcome the esteemed New York City Fire Department (FDNY); the New York City Police Department (NYPD); and the NYC Hospital Police, as well as Executive Management from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and many other DHS agencies, Federal law enforcement agencies, and private/public partnerships such as the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives (NAWLEE), the 30×30 Initiative, a coalition of professionals advancing the representation of women in policing; and Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) (rail safety advocates).
The prestigious Annual ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program highlights the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today, to ensure our readers have the information they need to stay ahead of the competition and keep our Nation safe – one facility, street, and city at a time.
In 2022 over 240 distinguished guests representing Federal, State, and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Firms gathered from across North America, Europe, and the Middle East to be honored among their peers in their respective fields.
Each year, to keep our communities safe and secure, security dealers, installers, integrators, and consultants, along with corporate, government, and law enforcement/first responder practitioners, convene in New York City to network, learn and evaluate the latest technologies and solutions from premier exhibiting brands at ISC East, the Natural Disaster & Emergency Management Expo (NDEM EXPO), and the ASIS NYC Expo.
ISC East is the Northeast’s leading security & public safety event, hosted in collaboration with sponsor Security Industry Association (SIA) and in partnership with ASIS NYC.
Corporate firms, the majority of which return year to year to build upon their Legacy of Wins, include:
Advanced Detection Technologies, AMAROK, ATI Systems, Axis Communications, Automatic Systems, BriefCam, Canon U.S.A., Cellbusters, CornellCookson, CyberArk Fortior Solutions, guardDog.ai, Hanwha Techwin of America, High Rise Escape Systems, IPVideo Corporation, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, NEC National Security Systems, NICE Public Safety, OnSolve, PureTech Systems, Quantum Corporation, Rave Mobile Safety, Regroup Mass Notification, Robotic Assistance Devices, Rajant Corporation, SafeLogic, Select Engineering Services LLC, Singlewire Software, SolarWinds Worldwide, Teledyne FLIR, Valor Systems, and West Virginia American Access Control Systems, just to name a few!
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AST Reaches both Private & Public Experts, essential to meeting these new challenges.
Today’s new generation of public safety and security experts need real-time knowledge to deal with domestic and international terrorism, lone wolf attacks, unprecedented urban violence, shifts in society, culture, and media bias – making it increasingly difficult for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Military and Private Security Professionals to implement coordinated security measures to ensure national security and improve public safety.
These experts are from Government at the federal, state, and local levels as well as from private firms allied to the government.
AST provides a full plate of topics in our AST Monthly Magazine Editions, AST Website, and AST Daily News Alerts, covering 23 Vital Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities, and Emergency Response among others.
AST has Expanded readership into integral Critical Infrastructure audiences such as Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Water Plants & Dams, Bridges & Tunnels, and other potential targets of terrorism.
Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – all enticing targets due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.
To learn more about ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, Be On the LookOut for the 2022 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS Edition Fully Interactive Magazine – the Best Products of 2022 ‘A Year in Review’.
The Annual CHAMPIONS edition includes a review of ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning products and programs, highlighting key details on many of the winning firm’s products and services, including video interviews and more.
It will serve as your Go-To Source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2022 Products and Services’ endorsed by American Security Today, and can satisfy your agency’s and/or organization’s most pressing Homeland Security and Public Safety needs.
From Physical Security (Access Control, Critical Infrastructure, Perimeter Protection, and Video Surveillance Cameras and Video Management Systems), to IT Security (Cybersecurity, Encryption, Data Storage, Anti-Malware, and Networking Security – to name a few), the 2021 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION will have what you need to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitigate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.
It will also include featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders, and recognized firms in the 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.
A complete list of 2022 ‘ASTORS’ Award Winners will be announced shortly.
For more information on All Things American Security Today, as well as the 2023 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program, please contact Michael Madsen, AST Publisher at mmadsen@americansecuritytoday.com.
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