Open Standards are designed so disparate multi vendor systems can talk to each other. This is now helping interconnect the world of different public agencies to help in cases of emergency. Most agencies use communications systems that are designed to be private and not to be eavesdropped by the general public causing communications to flow slowly up and down each services communication system instead of flowing across the entire system. For example today there is still no standard way in most emergency scenarios to communicate at once with everyone involved including all branches of police to fire workers, campus security, faculty and students.IP communications are helping close this link and enable campuses and cities to create systems that link disparate existing systems and even automate many types of notifications using land lines, cell phones, recorded messages, texting, emails, paging and public addressing system. Many of these systems are being built be systems integrators and developers for specific market niches and therefore adjust seamlessly into the locally used communication solutions and create a manage a secure common interface that operates across all different systems. Many of these systems are designed and managed by system integrators together with local agencies and school districts. In particular reverse 911 solutions that enable to record a message and then call everyone involved combined with e-paging over electronic means (texting and email) plus conventional paging and public addressing will make a huge difference.Read more in Dallas Morning News Article Specialized ABP Technology Partner resellers create custom IP Paging Solutions