Police P25 Radios News & Articles

OakWIN consists of 47 tower sites and features high-quality, digital trunking capabilities for more than 5,000 police, fire, and EMS personnel. ...

In the wake of the season’s most devastating hurricane, a major metropolitan area reaches out to nearby smaller towns for law enforcement and firefighting assistance. Communication between the city’s ...

The Cisco NERV uses an IP-based network foundation, and meets or exceeds the National Incident Management System (NIMS) standards for type II mobile communication centers. ...

The combined solution takes radio transmissions — whether they’re digital or analog signals — from the radio tower and feeds those signals into a router that then converts the voice radio traffic into IP. ...

Many users don’t know how to use encryption, and radios can be jammed with a child’s toy. ...

Sept. 11 was a convergence of the worst possible problems in communication technology ...

There are many advantages to using an earpiece for your radio as opposed to having the audio broadcast through a speaker everyone around you can hear. ...

In the world of police and other first responder communications technology, Raytheon is seeking to create a new way of developing a network on which any device can run, regardless of manufacturer, enabling ...

By David R. LukesonInteroperable radio communications allows police, fire, EMS and other first responders to talk to one another during an emergency across agencies and across boundary lines. Achieving ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorAlthough the title of the IWCE 2010 Thursday symposium was ‘Will Broadband Voice Replace Traditional Land Mobile Radio,’ most of the symposium’s ...

By Tim DeesFor many years, cops got the information from their portable radios through the built-in speaker or a shoulder mic. That worked, but clarity was impaired in high-noise environments, and the ...

We have come a long way in the last decade, breaking down many barriers and achieving tremendous progress, but we still have many gaps to overcome. The public safety community still is far behind commercial users in terms of communications functionality. Let's take a moment to reflect on the past decade of challenges and changes made in land mobile radio, mobile data terminals, governance, standards, and training. ...

Dustin Springman, Director Network Operations at Southern Georgia Regional Information Technology Authority (SGRITA), is not a professional hockey player, but he’s following the philosophy of the ...

A dozen public safety entities (and one private sector concern) have filed waiver requests with the FCC seeking permission to build their own regional wireless broadband networks in 700 MHz. According ...

In 1989, APCO, NASTD, NCS, NTIA, Defense, and NSA agree to the Creation of APCO-NASTD-FED Project 25 (now referred to simply as Project 25 in deference to the broad range of participating organizations) ...

Every day, police officers, fire fighters, paramedics, and other public safety professionals have to communicate mission-critical information — in some of the most demanding environments and challenging circumstances — across jurisdictions, disciplines, and agencies. They cannot afford a breakdown in the technology through which they’re talking. In other words, encountering the proverbial “dropped call” is simply not an option. What are some of the steps being taken today to ensure that the message sent is, in fact, the message received, whether that is via voice or data connection? How are agencies and disciplines increasing their ability to remain connected in the micro, incident-response practice of public service, and how are they looking at the macro picture as plans are made and foundations laid for the future? ...

According to George Ake, a retired major with the North Carolina Highway Patrol who is presently with the Border Research and Technology Center (BRTC)–Austin (operated by the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas), overcoming jurisdictions’ desire to implement technical solutions before thoroughly understanding the business needs represents one of the key challenges an agency faces in providing interoperability-related technical assistance. Kelly Harris, deputy executive director of SEARCH, the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, agrees. ...

A standards document serves as a reference tool to describe how technology should function or how an interface should work. For example, it may explain how new technology should interface with older standardsbased technology (backwards compatibility), or it can provide a vendor with a way to determine if older standards-based technology must be changed to meet the latest standard. A standard can also assist potential manufacturers in identifying intellectual property associated with a given standard. Verifying compliance with a standard can be as simple as a vendor stating “yes our technology is compliant with standard X” during a procurement process or as complex as proving compliance as part of a comprehensive testing and acceptance regimen. A standard provides the end user, possibly a procurement officer, and the potential vendor community with a common target and a language to describe that target. If a standard is not thoroughly understood and interpreted in a consistent manner, problems will be created. ...

TIP, the Technology Improvement Project for the Middle Rio Grande Region of Texas, is a Project 25 (P25)- compliant, spectrum-efficient, VHF-trunked infrastructure system that is shared with local, State, Federal, and tribal users. The area served by the system covers roughly 15,000 square miles in 9 counties, with a population of 155,000. P25 is a suite of standards intended to help produce equipment that is interoperable and compatible regardless of manufacturer. ...