December 28, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Megan Silverstrim, Cumberland County Department of Public Safety
717.240.6400
Cumberland County Commissioners Sign Key Agreement to Begin Portable Radio Exchange
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania- December 28, 2009 – On December 28, 2009 Cumberland County Commissioners approved a vendor agreement with Harris Corporation. The action sets in motion a major initiative to update the County's Radio Communications System. The initiative includes two major steps: a long awaited Federal Communications Commission (FCC) frequency reconfiguration and the release of a new generation of portable radios for emergency personnel throughout the County.
The FCC is reallocating frequencies to alleviate cell phone interference that occurs in 800MHz radio systems, which has been a recurring problem for Cumberland County and other emergency radio systems nationwide. The reconfiguration allows the FCC to move cell phones signals to a different range of frequencies which clears the 800 MHz spectrum for emergency communications.
The Department of Public Safety is deploying a new generation of portable radios to support police, fire, EMS and other emergency workers in the field. The Open Sky P7200 series portables will replace the P800 series portables. The communication system upgrade will include new software that has been extensively tested by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Cumberland County Department of Public Safety has created an implementation team for the communications system upgrade that includes key staff from the Department of Public Safety; Harris Corporation – who acquired the Open Sky radio system from MA/COM; and L.R. Kimball - the County’s technical consultants on this project. The implementation team will authorize and coordinate training schedules to educate users on the operations of the new radios, identify target areas for replacement and formulate a schedule for the actual exchange process that will occur over the coming months. The team will also implement a quality assurance program for the radio system and expand efforts to generate feedback from system users throughout the County so that issues can be identified, addressed and corrected.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Megan Silverstrim, Cumberland County Department of Public Safety
717.240.6400
Cumberland County Commissioners Sign Key Agreement to Begin Portable Radio Exchange
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania- December 28, 2009 – On December 28, 2009 Cumberland County Commissioners approved a vendor agreement with Harris Corporation. The action sets in motion a major initiative to update the County's Radio Communications System. The initiative includes two major steps: a long awaited Federal Communications Commission (FCC) frequency reconfiguration and the release of a new generation of portable radios for emergency personnel throughout the County.
The FCC is reallocating frequencies to alleviate cell phone interference that occurs in 800MHz radio systems, which has been a recurring problem for Cumberland County and other emergency radio systems nationwide. The reconfiguration allows the FCC to move cell phones signals to a different range of frequencies which clears the 800 MHz spectrum for emergency communications.
The Department of Public Safety is deploying a new generation of portable radios to support police, fire, EMS and other emergency workers in the field. The Open Sky P7200 series portables will replace the P800 series portables. The communication system upgrade will include new software that has been extensively tested by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Cumberland County Department of Public Safety has created an implementation team for the communications system upgrade that includes key staff from the Department of Public Safety; Harris Corporation – who acquired the Open Sky radio system from MA/COM; and L.R. Kimball - the County’s technical consultants on this project. The implementation team will authorize and coordinate training schedules to educate users on the operations of the new radios, identify target areas for replacement and formulate a schedule for the actual exchange process that will occur over the coming months. The team will also implement a quality assurance program for the radio system and expand efforts to generate feedback from system users throughout the County so that issues can be identified, addressed and corrected.
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