Manatee/Sarasota County new P25 System

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Bolt21

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I remember reading somewhere, maybe from one of those documents you linked to, that it's projected mid-2017.

Now is the time for Manatee residents to start telling their elected sheriff and county commissioners that they should keep all routine radio traffic in the clear.
 

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Was doing some more reading on the scheduling of this etc. The timelines seem to be getting closer since this is the first quarter of 2017. Manatee County will be 9 sites and 16 channels, Sarasota County will be 9 sites and 17 channels. It appears from the write ups that they will utilize the same frequencies that they have today on 800MHZ. The radios will be equipped to toggle between the old harris/EDACS to the new one.
 

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I was just in Bradenton yesterday and saw Bradenton PD officers still using MRK-IIs.
 

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Anyone know if existing P25 Phase II scanners are compatable with the new system? Thanks, jetranger1461@yahoo.com

If it follows P25 standards as advertised, there's no reason why they should not but given it looks like it won't go live for another year, you have plenty of time to learn more (and/or even if it will really be fully Phase 2).

EDIT: Actually, the Scope of Work document (found at the links in previous posts) seems to indicate the system will be another "Phase 2 compliant/capable" system but they are building a Phase 1 system. It goes on to says several times that the system can be later "upgraded" to Phase 2.
 
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Well............ Motorola just bought Airbus DS Communications. Any idea as to what impacts this might have on the project? TT
 

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I'd say from what I have read they were unaware that they were wanting to be sold. Now that they are, based on what you read how this will impact things short/long term, no idea.
 

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Hopefully this link will work.

Motorola Solution To Buy Airbus DS Communications Business - Nasdaq.com

Motorola Solutions announces plans to bolster its 911 portfolio and next-generation 911 plans by purchasing the North American assets of Airbus DS Communications—notably, its industry-leading VESTA platform—in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year.
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Motorola Solutions today announced plans to bolster its 911 portfolio and next-generation 911 plans by purchasing the North American assets of Airbus DS Communications—notably, its industry-leading VESTA platform—in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year.

Bruce Brda, Motorola Solutions’ executive vice president of products and solutions, said the acquisition of Airbus DS Communications—part of Plant Holdings, Inc., which legally is the purchase target in the definitive agreement—is the latest in a series of moves that are designed to position Motorola Solutions well in the 911 marketplace immediately and especially as the industry transitions to all-IP next-generation 911 platforms.

“I believe that we’ve built—by far—the industry’s most complete software portfolio, with Airbus and Emergency CallWorks in the call-taking space, with PremierOne and Spillman in the CAD and records [arena], with our console portfolio,” Brda said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “And, if you wrap an analytics wrapper around it, the PublicEngines acquisition we made in 2015 gives us a really good foundation to build a public-safety suite in software that I believe is second to none in the industry.

“The Airbus VESTA acquisition really gives us the high-tier 911 call-taking solution that was missing from that suite that I just described.”

Although Motorola Solutions bought Emergency CallWorks and its call-taking solution two years ago, Brda said that solution does not overlap the 911 market segments served by Airbus DS Communications and its VESTA platform.

“Emergency CallWorks, which we acquired in 2015, really started their entry into the market in the Tier 3 PSAP space,” Brda said. “With the acquisition by Motorola, they’ve grown from Tier 3 and into the bottom of Tier 2 PSAPs.

“Airbus is really very complementary, because they’re Tier 1 and at the top of Tier 2. So, between the two of those assets, we have a really nice fit for everything from Tier 1 PSAPs down to Tier 3, with Airbus at the top and Emergency CallWorks at the bottom.”

Airbus DS Communications CEO Jeff Robertson echoed this sentiment.

“I think what ultimately brought this together was the vision in the end of allowing Motorola to expand into more of the 911 business and expand some of the feature set in their command-and-control solution,” Robertson said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “It’s a nice fit, sort of like Microsoft Office—all of the pieces come together. I’m excited to see how we can bring those products together and have Motorola expand into the 911 industry.”

When the Airbus DS Communications deal is complete, Brda said he anticipates that transitioning existing Airbus DS Communications customers to Motorola Solutions should not be a significant problem.

“The customers that have previously bought the Airbus products or solutions are largely the same public-safety customers that we have today, so we think this will be a very smooth transition as the assets that they have bought from Airbus historically move under the Motorola umbrella,” he said. “We call on the vast majority of them today, so this should be very smooth.”

Motorola Solutions announces plans to bolster its 911 portfolio and next-generation 911 plans by purchasing the North American assets of Airbus DS Communications—notably, its industry-leading VESTA platform—in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year.

Similarly, Airbus DS Communications employees—the company’s largest offices are in Temecula, Calif., and Quebec—should be comfortable in their roles, Brda said.

“We welcome the Airbus employees and the expertise that they bring into this space. It’s an area for us that we don’t have significant in-house expertise, so we welcome them into the Motorola family and the expertise that they bring.

“This is not about cost synergies. This is about adding components to our command-center solution that we didn’t have previously and building the industry’s best public-safety command-center suite of software applications. This is not a cost-synergy play.”

While the VESTA portfolio is “clearly the most significant” aspect of the announced acquisition, Airbus DS has an emergency-notification unit and a small P25 business that also are part of the deal, according to Brda.

A Motorola Solutions press release indicates that the Airbus DS Communications purchase will be subject to normal regulatory approvals, noting that the deal is expected to close. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Robertson noted that, until the deal closes, Airbus DS Communications will continue to operate as a separate company. For instance, the company will have a booth at next month’s APCO show in Denver, he said.

Airbus DS Communications has been on the selling block since September 2014, just a month after the company officials changed its name from Cassidian Communications. Its parent company, the Airbus Group, decided at the time to sell its global public-safety-communications assets, so it could focus resources on its core portfolio of aviation-related products and services.

Airbus Group officials in 2014 indicated that the plan was to sell all of the public-safety-communications assets in a single worldwide deal, and this strategy reportedly remained in place through at least the end of last year. However, with today’s purchase announcement, Motorola Solutions is buying only the North American public-safety communications assets of Airbus, Brda said. The proposed Motorola Solution purchase does not include European-based Airbus public-safety-communications assets, such as TETRA and TETRAPOL products and services, he said.

In addition, Robertson confirmed that the Airbus mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) over LTE team is located in Europe and is not part of the Motorola Solutions acquisition announced today.

Robertson, who was named as Airbus DS Communications CEO in the spring, said he is not sure why the Airbus Group decided it would be willing to sell just the North American public-safety-communications as opposed to demanding that a buyer purchase the worldwide assets in the sector. Although aware of negotiations for the company, Robertson said he “was not directly involved, and that was not the reason for my hiring. But I am excited about what this brings to us, for sure.”

Brda said one of Motorola Solutions primary goals is to transform its during the next several years is to transform its myriad 911 solutions into an integrated command-center solution that will be most effective for PSAP, particularly as they transition to next-generation 911.

“What we are doing is building an integrated suite in the command center and tightly integrate … what are today are stanalone workflow applications,” Brda said. “We believe the assets that we’ve built will give us—by far—the most complete suite in the industry. If you look at the competitive space in the command center, it’s quite fragmented. Nobody has the set of assets like we’ve acquired.”
 

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Manatee seems to be testing new radios

I listen to Manatee County all day everyday while working and started to hear today (12/18/17) that units are reporting to radio training classes. Moving to P25 seems to be getting closer.
 

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I have been told that Sarasota bought APX portables and the infrastructure is TAIT repeaters. TT
 

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20 some folks are stopping a public safety project?? County should get some gonads and tell them where to stick it.
 
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