Contra Costa County Upgrades Public Safety Network Using Communications Solutions from Harris Corporation
April 06 2005 - 9:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Contra Costa County Upgrades Public Safety Network Using
Communications Solutions from Harris Corporation Combination of
Constellation(R) Digital Microwave Radios and Intraplex
SynchroCast(R) Digital Multiplexers Provides Full-Service Solution
to Northern California Public Safety Department RESEARCH TRIANGLE
PARK, N.C., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation
(NYSE:HRS), a leading global provider of wireless equipment and
services, today announced that Contra Costa County, California, has
upgraded its public safety network with Constellation(R)
point-to-point microwave digital wireless radios from Harris
Microwave Communications Division, and Intraplex SynchroCast(R)
digital multiplexers from Harris Broadcast Communications Division.
Additionally, Contra Costa County utilizes Harris' NetBoss(R)
network management platform to effectively manage and maintain the
County's full array of microwave, networking and broadcast
products. The upgrade allows Contra Costa County to switch to a
higher-capacity infrastructure with superior management
capabilities, thus enabling public safety officials to more
effectively link dispatch centers to provide citizens with
emergency relief and protection services. Harris' Constellation
radios and Intraplex SynchroCast multiplexers combine to create a
fully managed infrastructure capable of simultaneously delivering
voice and data services. The installation of new Constellation
radios effectively quadruples the County's existing network
capacity from 45 Mbps to 180 Mbps, allowing for an unfettered flow
of critical communications among police, fire and public safety
personnel. The Constellation radio provides an integrated expansion
port that enabled the upgrade to occur without disruption to the
public safety network, thus ensuring continuity of these critical
services. The expansion port allowed the new 3DS3 radios to be
installed and tested in parallel with the existing DS3 system on a
single antenna system. This arrangement provides both maximum
coverage and loop redundancy, ensuring reliability of transmission
between agencies in the event of an interruption or outage. "Each
of our microwave and networking products is designed from the
ground up to seamlessly work together," said Jayne Leighton, North
America vice president of sales and services for Harris
Corporation's Microwave Communications Division. "In a sector where
split-second decisions can mean life or death, Harris' microwave
and networking products ensure rapid and reliable delivery of
mission-critical information to those who need it most." Integrated
alongside the Constellation radios are Harris' Intraplex
SynchroCast digital multiplexers and timing modules. The Intraplex
SynchroCast system helps reduce transmission costs by combining
voice and data streams on a single channel, while ensuring greater
coverage areas by simulcasting with multiple overlapping
transmitters operating on the same frequency. The Intraplex
SynchroCast multiplexers use GPS timing to ensure reliable audio
reception by automatically adjusting delays and "locking" together
signals from multiple transmitters. With Harris' NetBoss network
management platform, Contra Costa County's technicians can
constantly monitor the status of the overall network and its
individual components, regardless of vendor or protocol, and
pinpoint even the most minor faults in the system with precise
accuracy through a graphical display, dramatically reducing the
need for site visits and costly on-site equipment troubleshooting.
Situated just north of Oakland and east of the San Francisco Bay,
Contra Costa County encompasses an area of over 700 square miles
and a population of nearly one million residents. Since the
installation was completed in October 2004, Constellation's
increased capacity has reduced the County's potential for bandwidth
bottlenecks within its network, and provided greater opportunities
to deploy enhanced services. About Constellation(R) Harris
Constellation microwave radios are the ideal solution for wireless
carrier and private network operators. Designed for
high-performance and low- cost networking applications, the
point-to-point digital radio's scalable low- , medium- and
high-capacity settings provide reliable transport from 8xDS1 to OC3
and 4xDS3. As a flexible indoor solution, Constellation offers
greater scalability and affordability than industry counterparts.
Additionally, the Constellation's backward-compatible 4xDS3
interface offers operators increased network planning flexibility,
enabling them to perform field upgrades and add another DS3 without
adding another radio. Built-in diagnostics and performance
management are available. About Intraplex SynchroCast(R) Harris
SynchroCast multiplexers provide carriers and public safety
organizations with functionality that enables continuous
communications across wide geographies on the same channel without
having to manually change frequencies. Synchrocast technology,
originally developed and refined for use in land-mobile radio
systems, makes this type of broadcast possible by integrating GPS
satellite receivers and precision digital delay. The GPS receiver
delivers a precise timing reference to the studio and each
transmitter site while the digital delay modules calculate and
introduce a precise amount of additional delay. Working in tandem,
these enable exact alignment of the transmitted audio signals,
resulting in dramatically increased mobile radio coverage. About
NetBoss(R) The NetBoss network management platform provides
carriers, enterprises and public safety organizations with a
single-point of control to effectively manage and maintain their
full array of microwave, networking and broadcast products.
Organizations can constantly monitor the status of the overall
network and its individual components, regardless of vendor or
protocol. This enables them to pinpoint even the most minor faults
in the system with precise accuracy through a graphical display,
eliminating the need for expensive site visits and equipment
troubleshooting. About Harris Harris Microwave Communications
Division, one of four divisions within Harris Corporation, is the
largest supplier of microwave systems in North America and a
leading supplier worldwide. Harris Corporation is an international
communications technology company focused on providing assured
communications(TM) products, systems and services for government
and commercial customers. The company's operating divisions serve
markets for government communications, tactical radio, broadcast,
and microwave systems. Harris provides systems and service to
customers in more than 150 countries. Additional information about
Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/.
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Tonya Loggains, Microwave
Communications Division of Harris Corporation, 919-767-3278, or ;
or Jay Nichols of Sterling Communications, Inc., 415-749-6550, or
Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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