| 1967 | Bruce Marcus, under the auspices of Montclair Communications, designs the in-ambulance EKG, made famous by the TV series "Emergency." As a result, Marcus and his attorneys secure the nation ten (10) channels specifically for the use of this technology. |
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1969
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Marcus Communications, Inc. is formed by founder Bruce S. Marcus. Services were offered to ambulance, commercial, business and industrial users.
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1970
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Marcus designs the world's smallest touch-tone pad dubbed the "Tiny Tone Pad," used on mobile and portable two-way radios. The Tiny Tone Pad allowed users to be interconnected to the public telephone network. A major precursor to "cellular telephones."
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1976
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Marcus provides communications for the tall ships of United Technologies' Operation Sail in Newport, RI and New York harbor to be used for the protection of foreign dignitaries and executives hosted by UTC.
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1977
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Marcus builds wide-area paging network and dispatch services for Message Center in Hartford.
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1980
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Marcus is the first to successfully scramble satellite TV signals. Marcus uses the developed technology for the live Leonard Hearns fight from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, NV.
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1980
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Marcus provides communications equipment to ABC and various production companies to provide live television for New Jersey and New York marathons. The infrastructure included microwave for helicopter borne, vehicle, motorcycle and ground mounted systems as well as two-way radio communications across the tri-state area.
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1980
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Marcus sets up paging systems for the Olympics at Lake Placid.
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1984
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AT&T enlists Marcus to provide multiple-channel audio system for World Olympics in Los Angeles. Marcus develops first multiple satellite uplink facility allowing access to numerous satellites from one trailer mounted facility at public television station KCET. Marcus provides 118 channels of digital wide-band audio at a time when only 24 were possible.
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1986
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Marcus is selected to provide full microwave and two-way radio coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty called "Liberty Weekend" in New York.
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1996
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Marcus provides entire communications system for Greater Hartford Marathon.
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1999-present
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Marcus Communications becomes the largest Kenwood Dealer in the Northeast.
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2000
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Marcus provides complete communications system and 350 radios for use at OPSAIL 2000 in New London, CT.
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2000
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Marcus wins contract to build Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation a multi-site, 1,500 radio trunked system on campus.
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2000
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Marcus builds Six Flags New England a state-of-the-art trunked radio system to operate its 500 Kenwood radios.
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2001
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Marcus wins ESPN contract to deploy trunked system infrastructure and over 1,000 radios.
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2001
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Marcus begins deployment of a statewide two-way radio network.
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2002
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Marcus launches the VoiceLink™ two-way radio network, statewide. The network commences with over 3,000 subscriber units.
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2003
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Marcus wins a contract valued at $925,000 to build Windsor, Connecticut a trunked radio system with over 299 subscriber units.
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2004
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Marcus wins a contract valued at $543,000 to build East Windsor, Connecticut a trunked radio system with 177 subscriber units.
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2004
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Marcus selected to build a trunked radio system at the University of Connecticut's Rentschler Field Football park in East Hartford, Connecticut.
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2005
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Marcus chosen to partcipate in TOPOFF, a Homeland Defense drill in New London Connecticut, by providing a portable trunked radio system and over 200 suscriber units.
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