LTE  |   P25  |  2021-11-02

ESChat Announces ATAK Plugin

Source: SLA Corporation
Curated by: Gert Jan Wolf - Editor-in Chief for The Critical Communications Review

Via Social media SLA Corporation, a privately held Corporation, with a 30 year history of delivering complex engineered solutions to market for Government, Military, Industrial and Commercial customers,   announced availability of the ATAK Plug-In for ESChat. The ESChat ATAK Plug-In is available at no charge to U.S. military and government users.

What is ATAK?
The Android Tactical Assault Kit, also known as the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) is a situational awareness platform providing a Common Operational Picture on an Android, iOS and Windows devices. The ESChat ATAK integration allows users to communicate directly from ATAK, while using the ATAK Common Operational Picture.

Additional information is available at tak.gov.

Currently used by the U.S. Military as well as Federal, State and Local law enforcement, ESChat is able to operate over FirstNet Band 14 LTE spectrum, commercial carriers and WiFi. ESChat supports interoperability with all LMR radio networks, including P25 via the native Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) protocol and DMR via the native Inter Application Interface Specification (AIS) protocol."​