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AtHoc's Emergency Notification System Achieves CAP Compliance
By Complying With the OASIS Standard for Emergency Information, AtHoc Further Expands Its Interoperability and Ability to Manage Emergency Alerting Across All CAP-Compliant Notification Channels
| Source: AtHoc
BURLINGAME, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 20, 2007 -- AtHoc today announced the company's
emergency alerting and management offerings are compliant with the Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP), a standard created by the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). AtHoc is a
contributing member of OASIS.
CAP is an open, non-proprietary format for exchanging all types of hazard
warnings and emergency alerts over disparate, network-based emergency
management systems. AtHoc's systems are consistent with the OASIS CAP
suggestions for interoperability between emergency management and alerting
systems, including network alerting, radios, public address systems,
telephony, etc.
CAP is one of several interface options that support the ability for
AtHoc's systems to communicate with network alerting, sirens, telephony and
emergency broadcast systems, creating an overarching, multi-channel
alerting system. Because the AtHoc product line includes a powerful alert
management console aimed at launching multiple alerting systems through the
click of a mouse, now any CAP-compliant system can easily interoperate with
the AtHoc offerings. The AtHoc system functions as a CAP server, enabling
the input and output of CAP messages.
"In times of emergency, people should be alerted through all types of
systems simultaneously. CAP brings that vision closer to reality by helping
the industry take an enormous step forward in interoperability," said Aviv
Siegel, chief technology officer of AtHoc. "As a leader in network-centric
alerting, we felt making our products CAP compliant wasn't just a good
business idea, it was a responsibility. We will continue to embrace and
support industry standards, such as those that are part of the OASIS
Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) standards framework. There's no
industry in which interoperability of systems is more critical."
OASIS is a not-for-profit global consortium that drives the development,
convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Companies interested in
adopting CAP within their product lines should visit the OASIS Web site at
www.oasis-open.org.
About AtHoc, Inc.
AtHoc, Inc. provides enterprise-class, network-centric alert delivery and
management systems for emergency notifications, force protection readiness,
anti-terror warnings and critical communications. AtHoc offers a broad set
of alerting solutions for government and defense agencies and commercial
enterprises, including IWSAlerts™ for network-centric emergency
notifications; C2Alerts™ for targeted user alerts in command and control
/ C4I operations centers; KMAlerts™ for knowledge and intelligence
dissemination; and EmployeeAlerts™ for corporate emergency
communications. AtHoc has partnered with Microsoft, Northrop Grumman,
Unisys and IBM to bring these notification solutions to the enterprise
market. The U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boeing, eBay and Juniper Networks are some of the
world-class organizations that have selected and deployed AtHoc for their
critical enterprise notification needs.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.