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"In the first 24 hours after we plugged the phones in, there were 11 family members reunited," he said. "We got a hug every time we went into a shelter to make sure things are up and running all right."
Just as Katrina proved the vulnerability of traditional telephone and cellular networks, it also showed how Internet-based technologies could be used to speedily re-establish links with the outside world.
Dearman was not alone. Teams from large companies, private groups and the military converged on the Gulf Coast in ad hoc fashion to set up wireless networks, all the while battling bureaucracies that didn't seem to understand the agility and flexibility of the technologies being marshaled.
Naval Postgraduate School student sitting, Petty Officer Mark Mollere, Andy Dittmer put communications i roof of Hancock Medical Center las Louis, Miss. The team installed a V within five hours of their arrival ar could send e-mail, surf the Web an messages.
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