In the field

Arizona conducts first ISSI testing on live network

• 5th January 2009

Motorola recently announced the first-ever deployment of Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) gateways between live P25 networks in Arizona

Handheld analyzer tests P25

• 1st January 2009

Anritsu introduced the S412D LMR Master, a handheld test-and-measurement instrument for the installation, verification and servicing of Project 25, or P25, communications systems.

Urgent Communications – Project 25

• 16th December 2008

NPSTC to pursue comparison of TETRA and P25

• 25th November 2008

Board members for — the National Public-Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) — voted to proceed with an effort to provide a written comparison of radio systems using Project 25 (P25) and Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) technologies.

So far, so good

• 1st November 2008

Can new frequency coordination procedures established by an independent council of 19 disparate associations be so painless and uncontroversial that the Federal Communications Commission can’t even muster a Public Notice over the results?

Tait Chosen for P25 System for Police, Fire

• 1st November 2008

The City of Augusta, Maine, has chosen Tait Radio Communications to deploy a Project 25 VHF simulcast radio system

Raytheon to deploy P25 system in eastern Idaho

• 16th October 2008

Raytheon announced this week that it will provide an interoperable, Project 25 (P25) radio system for public-safety agencies throughout eastern Idaho.

Almost ready for prime time

• 1st October 2008

After years of being limited to debates regarding the long-term future of communications, software-defined radio and cognitive radio have become factors

Tunnel vision

• 1st September 2008

Virtual private networks, or VPNs, provide the security of private networks without the cost by using encryption to disguise data

Project 25 Standard Moves Foward

• 1st September 2008

The APCO Project 25 Interface Committee, or APIC, has sent the physical-layer proposal for the second phase of the standard