Bud I'm guessing that BPD is going to have to stay on the Cleveland system. Maybe for the same reason Euclid PD had to. This change has been in the works for months so if there was any equipment they needed to be solely on Marcs-IP I would think it have been installed already. Where is the closest Marcs tower to Bratenahl? Wickliffe??
Tonya,
The closest MARCS-IP towers are Wickliffe and the Justice Center. GCRCN (Cleveland's) towers are the Euclid (south side of the i90, Chardon Road), Martin Luther King Blvd and the Justice Center. So GCRCN with the Euclid - i90 -Chardon Road tower is the closest, followed by the Martin Luther King Blvd tower.
To recap what I've heard this week.
Starting with the 6th, most (almost all) of the field traffic was originating from the GCRCN system.
On the 7th, the majority (60 - 40) was originating from MARCS-IP.
Today the 8th, nearly all of the traffic came from MARCS-IP (one or two stragglers on GCRCN) .
So it sounds like they've done a field rollout/conversion this week. All of the dispatch has originated on MARCS-IP.
What I haven't heard this week would be the Portables (Walky Talkiy). That's where Euclid PD had had the biggest issues.