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Thales Communications, Inc.

• LibertyTM Multi-Band Land Mobile Radio

2008
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Interoperability Issues Still Exist

• Seven years after 9-11 Interoperability Issues
  Still Exist
• Katrina Finding Lack of communications and
  situational awareness paralyzed command and
  control

Why Cant We Talk??
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Many Users.Different Frequency Bands

• The Root Cause for Interoperability Remains the
  Same.Multiple Users in Different Frequency
  Bands using Different Waveforms

402 - 420 MHz
Frequency
136 - 174 MHz
380 - 400 MHz
450 - 512 MHz
700 MHz
800 MHz

Bands
25

Waveforms



Federal


Agencies

State and Local

Government


DoD LMR






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Thales LibertyTM Radio Specifications

• Specifications
• Full coverage in all Public Safety bands
• 136-174 MHz, 380-520 MHz, 763-869 MHz
• Project 25 Class A Specs Across all bands
• Programmable power up to 5 Watts
• Certifications
• FCC/Industry Canada Type Acceptance
• NTIA Redbook
• NIST FIPs 140-2 Encryption (AES)
• Intrinsic Safe
• Programming
• Front panel Keypad with SW password control
• Radio to Radio Clone
• PC programmer

User Needs Answered
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Thales Communications Inc.
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Made in USA
Complete Product Development and Support

• Engineering
• All engineering done in-house
• On-site model shop for quick prototyping
• CMMI Level 3
• Manufacturing
• Complete robotics-type factory
• Two manufacturing facilities
• ISO 90012000
• Customer Support
• Technical support free to all product users
• Full warranty and repair facility, in-house
  and in-theatre
• Product updates and info maintained on website

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Producers of rugged, reliable products with over
150,000 software defined multiband radios now
deployed throughout the U.S. and around the world
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Technical Leadership Hand Held SDR
Software Defined Radios

• 1995 MSHR
• 136-174 MHz
• Type 1 3 Voice Data
• 16 oz. with Battery
• FBI USASOC

• 1989 AN/PRC-139
• Three Bands
• Type 1 Voice
• USAF Security Police

• 1997 AN/PRC-148 (MBITR)
• 30-512 MHz, AM/FM
• Type 1 Voice Data
• SINCGARS SIP
• HAVEQUICK II
• ANDVT
• 32 oz. w/ Battery Ant
• Version for Harris

• 1998 Thales 25
• 136-174 MHz
• APCO Project 25
• Narrowband Digital
• DES/AES Voice Data

• 1996 Pintail
• Three Bands
• Type 1 Voice Data
• 5 Watt RF Option
• Australian Army

• 2004 AN/PRC-148 (JEM)
• 30-512 MHz, AM/FM
• MBITR Waveforms
• Project 25
• HTW, SATCOM IW
• Type 1 Voice Data
• JTRS SCA 2.2
• 32 oz. w/ Battery Ant

• 1997TASS
• RF Network Sensor Sys
• Dual Band (VHF/UHF)
• USAF Security Police

More SDR tactical hand held radios than anyone
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Thales New Product Roadmap

• Existing or Already Funded

• JTRS Enhanced
• MBITR (JEM)
• JTRS SCA V2.2-
• compliant
• Waveform upgradeable
• 30MHz-512MHz
• Reprogrammable
• Encryption Type 1
• P25 waveform
• External GPS

• MBITR
• AN/PRC-148
• 30-512 MHz
• AM-FM
• Voice Data

• JTRS Cluster 5
• 2MHz-2.8GHz
• Wideband data
• Cellular

• Thales 25
• 136-174 MHz
• P25-compliant

• Thales 25
• Upgrades
• OTAR

Thales

• Thales Liberty Portable
• 136-870MHz
• Waveform upgradeable
• Reprogrammable
• Encryption, AES, OFB
• DES, OTAR
• P25 trunking/conventional
• External GPS

• Software
• Upgrades

• Homeland Security

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Challenges for a Public Safety Multi-Band
Portable

• SWAP Size, Weight, And Power
• Radio Basics
• Range, Audio clarity, battery life
• Ability to scan multiple bands
• Fast Synthesizer lock and radio operating at spec
  quickly during scan, channel change.
• Fast radio boot up.
• Radio specification performance across all bands
• Single antenna covering multiple bands
• Price similar to single band PS radios

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LibertyTM Demo Live
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Public Safety Software Management

• CMMI Level 3 requires full traceability from
  requirements to their implementation,
  verification validation testing and subsequent
  results.
• CMMI requires use case scenarios tied directly
  to systems software functionality.
• WEB based delivery of software upgrades
• Ability to upgrade feature sets easily
• Ability to upgrade radio firmware easily.
• Forward and backward compatibility of software
  revision levels
• Forward and backward compatibility of SW
  interface between Radio and PC programmer SW

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Security and Control

• SW password control for radio operation
• SW password control for keypad channel
  programming
• Channel by Channel lock for keypad re-programming
• Zone by zone password protection for PC
  overwrites.
• System Key authentication requirements control
  trunking system programming access
• P25 OTAR encrypted key delivery
• All SW builds are authenticated with the radio
  operating system to prevent unauthorized SW loads
• New multi-band Public Safety radios embody the
  same level of security and control as a current
  single band radios  

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Benefits of Multi-Band Public Safety Radios
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Perfect Cache Radio

• The perfect Cache radiofor natural disasters,
  terrorist events
• Preprogrammed for mutual aid channels inall
  bands with NPSTC common channel nomenclature
• Program on the scene from front panel or PC
• Clone radio to radio
• Deploy quickly and hand out radios

• Operate with or without infrastructure

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Best Band for Propagation

• Take full advantage of mutual aid channels in all
  bands 136-869 MHz
• Choose the band with best propagation
  characteristics for your application UHF for
  urban settings,container inspectionsVHF for
  superior performancein rural, forests,
  andparks

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Perfect Bridge for P25 and Legacy

• Perfect bridge radio between established regional
  P25 trunked systems and adjacent conventional
  radio users in other bands
• Good communication link between Statewide P25
  networks and small, rural agencies and
  municipalities

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Direct Connection Security

• Direct connection to existing systems for secure
  authentication and AES encryption
• Most secure interoperablity links, no patch or
  reduction to baseband audio required

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Pilot for Multi-Band Radio

• The Plan will include four separate test
  scenarios
• Multi-agency everyday use in a shared environment
  using multiple frequency bands
• Multi-agency mutual aid for a specific incident
  using multiple frequency bands
• Pre-planned deployment to a regional incident
  scenario or exercise using multiple frequency
  bands
• Multi-Band radio use in a radio cache deployed
  for an incident or natural disaster.

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Pilot for Multi-Band Radio

• Concerns and Issues
• Limiting access of unwanted users on radio
  systems
• Protecting sensitive voice/data transmissions not
  meant for interoperability
• Rapid deployment and programming of multiband
  equipment to be fully interoperable with existing
  P25/FM radio systems
• User familiarity with radios for catastrophic
  events where end-users may have little or no
  radio experience
• Interoperability impact of non-access to
  proprietary systems

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Pilot for Multi-Band Radio

• Field Test Survey will be completed by the
  participants in the field test.
• How well and in what ways would this radio
  support everyday communications?
• Was interoperability across all bands achieved?
  If not, describe.
• What issues were faced when trying to get onto
  another agencys radio system?
• How was private data and voice (not meant for
  interoperability) protected?
• Open-ended questions for general discussions on
  information learned.

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Pilot for Multi-Band Radio

• Comprehensive final report
• An Operational Requirements Document for the use
  and deployment of multiband portable radios
• Guidelines for the use of the radios features in
  the four operational scenarios investigated
• A comparison of multiband radio usage with other
  current methods of achieving interoperability,
  including measurements of the effort required to
  set up and operate the equipment

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Future Proof
Data Messaging
Project 25 Phase II
Cognitive Radio
Networks
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Questions ?

• What Interoperability issues could a
  Multi-band Land Mobile radio solve for your
  Agency?

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