Multi-Agency Coverage; Promotes Interagency Cooperation - OpenSky P800 User Manual

CHAPTER 1—Advanced Radio Operations

Multi-Agency Coverage

OpenSky is scalable, and designed to accommodate a
virtually unlimited number of portable devices from a
single fleet, or even a complex network made up of
several cooperating agencies.
Examples of how OpenSky improves cooperation:
•
•
•
•

Promotes Interagency Cooperation

In fact, the system is best suited to multi-agency public
safety networks over areas as large as an entire state:
See full discussions of Talk
every cruiser, ambulance and fire truck and all their
Group, User Group and
dispatchers and support personnel sharing voice, data,
User Profile elsewhere in
this manual
even graphics over the same network.
Talk to Anyone on your Network
Your personal voice profile defines who you
commonly communicate with. Each user needs only
one authorized radio to connect seamlessly to many
independent agencies or cooperating dispatch
networks.
10
P800 User's Manual
Every truck in a Carrier Company's fleet can share
one large national network.
Every cruiser in a state-wide police agency can
communicate with any other cruiser, from one end
of the state to the other.
Patrolmen with older analog equipment can
connect seamlessly with newer digital devices over
the same network.
Emergency response agencies share the same
network for improved communications during a
massive crisis.