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SmartZone question

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ButchGone

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If a city is operating a SmartZone 4.1 system, is this one the latest version or is 4.1 outdated? What's the latest SmartZone type (5.1, 6.1, etc???)
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The latest version of SmartZone is 4.1, and it does have an end-of-life date coming up before 2010. There will be a rebanding release of SmartZone 4.1, but essentially 4.1 is the end of the SmartZone line for Motorola.

The latest "SmartZone" system that Motorola is shipping is called ASTRO-25 and it is APCO Project 25 trunking. Wide area systems work much the same as SmartZone does, so the release numbers for ASTRO-25 start at 6.0 and the latest version is up in 7.x somewhere (7.6 possibly?).
 
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