Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that detect weapon firing/noise incidents in a region and/or include other related features. According to one or more embodiments, an exemplary method may include detecting acoustic signals from the region by one or more sensors, processing the detected acoustic signals to generate a processed signal, storing the detected acoustic signals with each sensor, and processing the processed signal associated with each sensor to determine if a weapon firing incident occurred. Moreover, exemplary methods may include, if unable to determine whether a weapon firing incident occurred, performing further processing of the acoustic signals and/or determining if a weapon firing incident occurred based upon the stored detected acoustic signals.

Abstract: An overlay on a wide area network is disclosed. The wide area network includes at least one backbone network, and the overlay includes a processor coupled to the backbone network. The processor furthermore contains instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to optimize real time performance of data delivery from the processor to another processor on the wide area network. A method of optimizing at least two routes in a wide area network is also provided. The method includes optimizing a first route based on a first characteristic and optimizing a second route based on a second characteristic.