ADP was purchased with new radios from Motorola can be had at $10 per radio. This is a significant savings compared to ~$500 per radio for DES/AES/DVP encryption. On the cost side, I'd order it for my radios as well for "down the road". As far as the system is concerned, only reprogramming of the talkgroups in the system database (ie, check a checkbox) and reprogramming of the radios themselves to the master templates would be required. The system is already setup for encyption so nothing major would need to be done.
Point 2: The media and all of their doom and gloom will have a fit over it. The CSP tends to have a good working relationship with the media, so I doubt they would cut that over. In addition, there is nothing too earth shattering over the radio that is said these days anyways with most police agencies.
Point 2.5: ADP (as far as I can tell) is not available on the XTS3000's still widely used. I am sure as those get replaced, the new model (XTS5000, APX7000 or APX6000) will come with ADP. But according to the message I got, just the new cars as they are rotated in are getting the new radios.
All subject to change of course!
OK I heard the same thing regarding ADP so there's definite validity here. As for down the road, I am starting to think down the road is a lot closer, unfortunately.
Regarding your second point, I agree that this is a huge consideration. The media has a good relationship with CSP and based on the number and context of the incomplete snippets seen on the "Breaking News" found on the local tv outlet or on the web, it's obvious they are getting info from monitoring the scanner. Encryption would likely cripple them!
Regarding the last point you made, the XTS3000 does in fact support ADP software encryption. I wasn't positive, but I thought it might. I just made a phone call to Motorola and got confirmation on that. That doesn't work well for hoping the encryption is far off.
Now obviously I am still just surmising here, but I was told yesterday that CSP was planning to implement encryption with the rebanding roll-out, still a couple months from completion. I was also told the ADP 'software' was purchased for each radio and that this is somehow causing the current delay. Like I said in my original reply, I am not sure how it delays things, but that's what I was told.
If all this is true, and since we know their fleet can support it, I guess we might expect ADP encryption with the rebanding. Let me just say I don't want to misinform or steer anyone down the wrong path so I am trying to be careful with what I say since even though I consider my contacts reliable, I am still not embedded in the CSP getting the straight dope.
I will try to get better, more specific info today. Like you said, everything is subject to change!
