Speedify × First Responders
Internet connectivity that works when everything else is failing.
The Problem
Major incidents are the worst cellular environment imaginable.
The moment a major incident establishes, dozens of first responder vehicles converge on the same location. Cellular towers in the area saturate within minutes. A single-carrier 4G/5G modem in an incident command vehicle that worked perfectly during the drive to the scene may lose connectivity entirely once the perimeter is set.
First responders depend on that connection for CAD, dispatch, real-time database queries, body camera uploads, and coordination with mutual aid agencies. A disconnected CAD terminal is not a minor inconvenience; it is a gap in situational awareness at the moment situational awareness matters most.
Rural incidents present the opposite constraint: sparse cellular infrastructure, marginal coverage from a single carrier, and distances that make any terrestrial connectivity unreliable. If a wildfire takes out the nearest cell tower, a single-carrier modem has no fallback.
The Solution
A bonded uplink with no single carrier dependency.
- Starlink satellite internet provides a high-throughput path that is completely independent of local cellular infrastructure, usable wherever there is clear sky access.
- Speedify distributes traffic across all active connections in real time, routing around congested or degraded links without any manual intervention from the crew.
- Speedify operates at the network layer: existing CAD connections, radio management systems, body camera platforms, and SCADA interfaces continue working without configuration changes.
- Speedify encrypts all bonded traffic with AES-256-GCM end-to-end. Existing network separation - operational versus crew - remains intact at the WAN layer.
Scenarios
Built for every kind of emergency services deployment.
01 / Incident command vehicles
Command keeps full situational awareness when cellular saturates.
02 / Rural and wildland operations
Internet connectivity in areas where a single carrier has no towers.
03 / Multi-agency and mutual aid operations
Every agency on the same scene with its own resilient internet connection.
04 / EMS and medical transport
Patient data reaches the receiving hospital before the ambulance does.
Stack
Speedify works under the operational systems your agency already runs.
Speedify operates at the network layer below all of them. Each platform sees a single, more resilient internet connection. Existing configurations and integrations stay intact.
For agencies with data sovereignty requirements, Speedify Self-Hosted Servers route all Speedify traffic through agency-controlled infrastructure, keeping sensitive operational data off shared cloud servers.
The Solution
Two ways to deploy in the field.
Network level: vehicles and command posts
Run Speedify on a compatible OpenWrt device installed in the command vehicle or mobile operations centre. Every device on the vehicle's network - CAD terminals, body camera stations, communications gear, laptops - benefits from bonded connectivity automatically. The network bonding router can bond its WAN interfaces (usually integrated SIM slots, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi) simultaneously.
- Supported OpenWrt routers: With a Speedify for Routers license.
- Powered by Speedify routers: Speedify is preinstalled and ready to configure.
Device level: individual responder workstations
Visibility
Speedify gives incident commanders real-time visibility into every link at the scene.
The Speedify dashboard shows the live status of all bonded connections on the command vehicle - 4G/5G cellular from each carrier, Starlink - updated continuously. When any link degrades under incident load, the Speedify dashboard reflects it within seconds. Incident commanders and IT officers can see exactly which connection is underperforming without leaving the command post.
For vehicles running Starlink alongside cellular, Speedify integrates directly with the dish telemetry. Obstruction events, signal degradation, thermal throttling, and hardware faults appear on the dashboard within 15 seconds of detection, reported independently per dish. In multi-vehicle command operations where several vehicles are running Speedify, each vehicle's link status appears separately, making it straightforward to identify which unit is experiencing connectivity issues.
For agencies managing Speedify across a fleet of response vehicles, the Speedify Teams dashboard surfaces per-vehicle link health centrally, and the RESTful API can pipe that data into existing dispatch or fleet monitoring infrastructure.