What is Response Paging?
While response paging‘s total available bandwidth is relatively low by today’s standards (eg, streaming video is out of the question), the penetration – or the ability to successfully deliver a message to personnel – is incredible, far beyond anything else currently available. Response paging delivers shorter messages than other technologies, but also does it more quickly and reliably than other technologies. This is an ideal balance for critical alerting. Compared to Wi-Fi (typically, 0.25 watt) or cellular (typically 40 watt), response paging uses a full 500 watts of direct modulation to transmit messages to users. Furthermore, up to 1/3 of the message bandwidth is reserved for error correction codes that further increase the coverage footprint and reliability. One response paging base station can cover several hundred square miles, including heavy construction, subterranean tunnels, houses, outdoors, indoors, etc, providing full bidirectional coverage to up to 50,000 users.
If you want video or social media, response paging is probably irrelevant. But if you must alert responders quickly and reliably, and know when they’ve received the message, response paging is unmatched in terms of both price and performance.