As a result, Cocoa Beach patrol cars have been transformed into mobile offices, providing officers with "always-on" high-speed access to real-time video, reporting tools, and databases - including the Florida and National Criminal Information Centers, DMV and other public safety systems. The network allows police officers to perform tasks in the field that would otherwise require them to return to headquarters.
In addition to permanent wide area mobile broadband coverage, the technology enables officers to form instant tactical broadband networks among themselves at an incident - even if the surrounding network infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. This self-healing system provides broadband data rates (256Kbps--1Mbps) on both the uplink and downlink, to and from officers in the field.