NYSP Statewide Wireless Network

[dpcain]

Hey, I know this is probably dragging up a painful dead horse. but I wonder if anything has happened with the move for a Statewide Wireless Network since M/ACOM dropped the ball and got their contract terminated. I've done some pretty extensive Google trawling and haven't found anything, but as always, the RR forums are crawling with people who are very much in-the-know. Anybody out there seen anything new going through the SWN committee or the OFT?

[studgeman]

Nope nothing new from a statewide radio system perspective. After they dropped SWN, the state moved to a county level approach, and to upgrading their existing systems as necessary. If I were to speculate out a decade, NY will probably be the first statewide implimentation of the ISSI in multiple bands, in the sense that it will be a system of systems, with the state riding on all of them. I am sure others can add significant detail to this thread, but that is the skinny.

[dpcain]

Bleagh.

[DaveNF2G]

The state is supporting regionalization now. Groups of counties are expected to build interoperable networks, which presumably can be leveraged by the state into a sort of "internet" of radio/data systems.

[Chauffeur6]

Originally Posted by DaveNF2G

The state is supporting regionalization now. Groups of counties are expected to build interoperable networks, which presumably can be leveraged by the state into a sort of "internet" of radio/data systems.

I'm not sure where you are getting that idea from. The state has nothing to do with any county or regional systems. No influence, no control and no access unless they come to an agreement with the authority having jurisdiction over the system to use it.


As for the OP's question...the NYS SWN is dead, with very little prospect of it being revived. The fact that OpenSky is junk and it couldn't pass the state's performance tests gave the state an easy way out of the contract. Ultimately, it would've been a colossal waste of taxpayer's money (see: Pennsylvania) and never would've lived up to the claims. Dumping it was one of the smartest things the state has done in recent memory.

[c0untyb0y]

Originally Posted by Chauffeur6

As for the OP's question...the NYS SWN is dead, with very little prospect of it being revived. The fact that OpenSky is junk and it couldn't pass the state's performance tests gave the state an easy way out of the contract. Ultimately, it would've been a colossal waste of taxpayer's money (see: Pennsylvania) and never would've lived up to the claims. Dumping it was one of the smartest things the state has done in recent memory.

Dumping SWN was the ONLY smart thing this state has done in recent memory! State agencies that would have been on SWN have gone to their "plan b" projects.

OFT also is no more. The Guv created OITS in its place. New York State Office of Information Technology Services Note that it's organized into "clusters" so you can understand how this agency will work.

[DaveNF2G]

I got my information from someone who is in charge of such a system for his county within a regional consortium. And, yes, New York State does have ways of "influencing" regions and counties, such as providing various incentives for including state agencies.

[jmv3085]

Regional Planning Committees (RPCs) have been formed to plan, coordinate, and administer public-safety radio frequencies. RPCs consist of representatives of public-safety agencies and those interested in furthering the goals of public-safety communications at the state and local levels within each region.


NYS Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services