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[Richard Brockway] A lot of responder agencies

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have difficulty intercommunicating -

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especially on an incident,

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and they were frustrated about

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not being able to use internet protocol

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to get interconnections

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between their existing equipment.

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The department of interior

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suggested to me that maybe

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I could build an interface

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that would allow them to

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take their existing radio equipment,

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and interconnect it

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over internet protocol.

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[Christine Lee] Basically, what RIC-M does

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is take data and voice

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from the base station

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and then converts that to

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the internet protocol.

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So once it's internet protocol,

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then a lot of other systems

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can be plugged in,

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and be interoperable.

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[Richard Brockway] So you can buy a base station

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from three different vendors.

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You can buy dispatch consoles

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from seven different vendors,

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and all of them will interconnect

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With the RIC-M.

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[John Freeburger] It doesn't matter which

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bandwidth your using,

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you can cross-band with it.

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You can bring

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multiple assets together

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with one device.

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Whatever bandwidth it is,

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It's all linking together.

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[Michael Ridge] The business model before

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would have been

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you would of have had to

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replace the entire

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communications system-

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the mobiles, the portables,

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the base station equipment,

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and the consoles.

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The RIC-M allows you

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to take a phased approach.

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You can replace the console subsystem,

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for example, by itself

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and still leverage your investment

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in your radio infrastructure

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and keep it in place.

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[John Freeburger] One of the challenges

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with urban search and rescue

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is that we have to bring our own

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infrastructure with us.

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Part of the major advantage

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of having the RIC-M,

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is your bringing what used to be

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found in a dispatch console to

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the incident commanders

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fingertips.

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All the convenience of

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a console dispatcher,

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is now readily available

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for the incident commander.

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