That is the smartest and most accurate thing I've ever heard you say, Paul. The days of these large, expensive LMR systems are numbered. As everyone is aware, with few exceptions most agencies have moved their mobile data systems over to cellular-based technologies using the major carriers to provide VPN service over the air to CLETS, etc.
The DOJ hasn't cried about that. What it is unintentionally doing is causing the technology to prove itself to these agencies. Based on its reliability to provide mobile data, agencies can see the reliability levels for themselves. It's only a matter of time before some major technology is developed (we're already beginning to see the early stages of it with BeOn and whatever Motorola calls their "off-network" cellular interconnect) that provides "radio feel" dispatch consoles and subscriber units that these agencies are comfortable with.
Look at anyone who is making "Network Radios", like Link Communications, etc.
That's the way it's going, folks. The taxpayers aren't going to fund major LMR systems forever when the technology to provide basically the same thing is already there, and you and I use it every day.
Only a matter of time before a police car radio is a small box in the dash with a power cord and cell phone antenna port on the back. Give it an IP address, VPN it to the station "host" computer, and move on with life.
We on the same page there, Paul?
Oh, and you have to click "patch 1", then the resources you want to patch. No check boxes. Unless you're using Avtec, then it's Patch + resource 1 then Patch + resource 2, etc. etc.
I seem to recall that there was an agency (Pasadena PD?) who had a talkgroup and the dispatchers would just put information out such as "Domestic Disturbance 1234 Main Street", "Vehicle accident, 5678 A Street", and that was the extent of it.
That is the smartest and most accurate thing I've ever heard you say, Paul. The days of these large, expensive LMR systems are numbered. As everyone is aware, with few exceptions most agencies have moved their mobile data systems over to cellular-based technologies using the major carriers to provide VPN service over the air to CLETS, etc.
The DOJ hasn't cried about that. What it is unintentionally doing is causing the technology to prove itself to these agencies. Based on its reliability to provide mobile data, agencies can see the reliability levels for themselves. It's only a matter of time before some major technology is developed (we're already beginning to see the early stages of it with BeOn and whatever Motorola calls their "off-network" cellular interconnect) that provides "radio feel" dispatch consoles and subscriber units that these agencies are comfortable with.
Look at anyone who is making "Network Radios", like Link Communications, etc.
That's the way it's going, folks. The taxpayers aren't going to fund major LMR systems forever when the technology to provide basically the same thing is already there, and you and I use it every day.
Only a matter of time before a police car radio is a small box in the dash with a power cord and cell phone antenna port on the back. Give it an IP address, VPN it to the station "host" computer, and move on with life.
We on the same page there, Paul?
Oh, and you have to click "patch 1", then the resources you want to patch. No check boxes. Unless you're using Avtec, then it's Patch + resource 1 then Patch + resource 2, etc. etc.
I seem to recall that there was an agency (Pasadena PD?) who had a talkgroup and the dispatchers would just put information out such as "Domestic Disturbance 1234 Main Street", "Vehicle accident, 5678 A Street", and that was the extent of it.
That is the smartest and most accurate thing I've ever heard you say, Paul. The days of these large, expensive LMR systems are numbered. As everyone is aware, with few exceptions most agencies have moved their mobile data systems over to cellular-based technologies using the major carriers to provide VPN service over the air to CLETS, etc.
The DOJ hasn't cried about that. What it is unintentionally doing is causing the technology to prove itself to these agencies. Based on its reliability to provide mobile data, agencies can see the reliability levels for themselves. It's only a matter of time before some major technology is developed (we're already beginning to see the early stages of it with BeOn and whatever Motorola calls their "off-network" cellular interconnect) that provides "radio feel" dispatch consoles and subscriber units that these agencies are comfortable with.
Look at anyone who is making "Network Radios", like Link Communications, etc.
That's the way it's going, folks. The taxpayers aren't going to fund major LMR systems forever when the technology to provide basically the same thing is already there, and you and I use it every day.
Only a matter of time before a police car radio is a small box in the dash with a power cord and cell phone antenna port on the back. Give it an IP address, VPN it to the station "host" computer, and move on with life.
We on the same page there, Paul?
Oh, and you have to click "patch 1", then the resources you want to patch. No check boxes. Unless you're using Avtec, then it's Patch + resource 1 then Patch + resource 2, etc. etc.
I seem to recall that there was an agency (Pasadena PD?) who had a talkgroup and the dispatchers would just put information out such as "Domestic Disturbance 1234 Main Street", "Vehicle accident, 5678 A Street", and that was the extent of it.
Stop making me agree with you, it feels weird!
I can totally see LMR systems or Intellirepeaters being the fall-back to RoIP systems in the future, similar to how the current weird fall-back plan of the RCS today with CAFIRE1 and CALAW8 and other such fun alternates being the go-to when the trunking system explodes. I would speculate that AT&T probably has some ideas or plans regarding providing their own mountaintop fall-back LMR systems to integrate into their FirstNet master plan. With 5G being pushed for IoT and being used for so much more than texting and phone calls going forward, you can really imagine a more robust and reliable cellular network being something that can be trusted more than today's version.
Paul
