Fire takes the infrastructure first — towers burn, fiber melts, PSPS shutoffs de-energize the rest. Wildfire communications built on any single path go dark with it. ARC Edge aggregates every surviving path into one network with no single point of failure, keeping division comms, cameras, and weather telemetry live as the fire moves.
Wildfire attacks communications before it attacks anything you're defending — towers burn, fiber melts, and PSPS shutoffs de-energize whatever the flames haven't reached. Divisions lose data the moment they cross a ridge. Camera feeds and weather stations drop exactly when fire behavior turns. And because the fireline moves, coverage that held at the morning briefing is gone by the afternoon operational period.
ARC Edge deploys at the ICP, a division break, or a spike camp and aggregates whatever connectivity fire weather has left standing — surviving cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi-as-WAN, point-to-point — into one resilient incident network.
5+ aggregated paths, zero single points of failure. A tower burning over or a PSPS-de-energized backhaul is a path change, not an outage — traffic converges on surviving links in under 50ms.
The network degrades gracefully. It doesn't go dark.
Application-aware and transport-agnostic, ARC Edge carries video, telemetry, and sensor data unchanged — fire cameras and remote weather feeds keep reaching the incident after their original links are gone.
Fire behavior data flows when it matters most.
Mutual-aid resources join the network, not a new workflow. ARC Edge carries each agency's existing tools — ATAK, VoIP, incident-management software — so the whole incident shares one resilient picture.
Type 1 team or volunteer district: same network.
Fireline voice runs on tactical radio, but everything else — mapping, cameras, weather data, logistics — depends on cellular and fixed infrastructure that fire weather takes down first. ARC Edge adds a deployable data layer for wildfire communications: it aggregates every surviving path (multi-carrier cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi-as-WAN, wired uplink) into one resilient network for the incident.
That is the condition ARC Edge is designed for. With 5+ aggregated paths and no single point of failure, losing any one of them — a burned tower, a backhaul de-energized by a PSPS shutoff — moves traffic to surviving paths in under 50ms. The network degrades gracefully instead of going dark.
Yes. ARC Edge is application-aware and transport-agnostic: it carries video, telemetry, and sensor data unchanged. Camera feeds and remote weather telemetry keep flowing to the incident even after the links they were installed on are gone.
Yes. Agencies join the network, not a new workflow. ARC Edge carries each agency's existing tools — ATAK, VoIP, incident-management software — so incident management teams, local districts, and out-of-state resources share one resilient network without changing how they work.
Tell us about your response area, your fire history, and your current comms plan. We'll show you what ARC Edge would look like on your next incident — including a live demo.
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