India-based Shoghi Communications, established in 1998, is a provider of active, passive and semi-active mobile interception/location, plus SATCOM, RF monitoring/jamming and encrypted security solutions for military, government and law enforcement clientele. With such an impressive array of products, it is a pity that the company carries the hint of corruption from a long ago … [Read more...]
Italy’s Innova – King of the GPS Tracking Device
An inside joke of the ISS industry is that Italy has more surveillance companies per square mile than any other nation on earth-- upwards of 200 vendors including recognized brands such as AREA, BEA, Endoacustica, ESIM Global, The Hacking Team, Innova, iPS, RCS and SioS. The punchline: They're really just one company with 200 aliases. Of course that's not true, although given … [Read more...]
ELTA Systems: Going Passive on Mobile and SATCOM Interception
Based in Ashdod, ELTA Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), is one of Israel’s foremost electronic warfare and intelligence companies -- many would say the undisputed leader in advanced radar sensor technologies used in the air, on the ground and at sea. The company’s Tac4G system, in combination with data from ELTA’s Black Granite tactical radar data, … [Read more...]
Cisco Hyperlocation: En Route to Owning WiFi Mobile Location
Say "Cisco" and you automatically evoke visions of the US $49.0 billion network equipment behemoth that has owned the router space almost since the dawn of the Internet. But routers aren't the only market dominated by the giant hardware/software firm named after its native San Francisco. Growing in importance is the market for WiFi equipment such as access points. Here Cisco … [Read more...]
Did MIT MegaMIMO 2.0 Just Advance WiFi Interception?
Flashing across the mobile news world late this month comes word that MIT researchers have developed MegaMIMO 2.0, a set of signal-processing algorithms that triples the speed of WiFi and doubles its range. Designed to optimize spectrum utilization of WiFi in congested areas such as stadiums, concerts and other venues, MegaMIMO 2.0 is being hailed as a major advance that will … [Read more...]