To illustrate our capability, SCI currently manages the National Capitol Region Land Mobile system which is the largest P-25 Trunked system in the nation, with 26 sites that stretch from New York to Southern Virginia in which continuity has played a significant role in the implementation, configuration, installation, integration and providing Life Cycle Support.

By utilizing a single network integrator to ensure configuration, installation and integration, it has increased network capability, system flexibility, reliability, integrity and has reduced downtime and cost. 

With APCO P-25 quickly becoming the national standard for communications, SCI has been on the forefront of this technology for the last 10 years providing options and solutions to ensure connectivity even in the most remote locations utilizing bi-directional antenna systems, wireless, fiber and VOIP platforms for system interconnectivity while at the same time reducing the operational infrastructure footprint.

SCI also recognizes declining budgets have played a key role in thinking, and working outside the box to maintain system performance and a reliable cost effective life cycle support mechanism providing project and program management solutions in a single source integrator that can Sell it, Design it, Stage it, Configure it, Install it, Integrate it and Maintain it!  Being intimately familiar with an entire system down to the component level save time and money!

With increasing demands for flexibility, capability and longevity looking to tomorrow for today’s solutions in communications networks will undoubtedly be more complex with requirements to support a larger and more diverse set of operational characteristics.  Having a centralized hub for staging, which can provide system continuity and integrity before installation and integration will significantly reduce cost and provide a better platform for project management.

The Network Operations Center Option

Besides, staging, configuration, installation and integration, SCI can offer a Network Operations Center (NOC) to oversee configuration management and Life Cycle Support which monitors the health of entire system as it grows, all the way through completion.  It allows for a “one-stop-shop” for programming, keying, over-the-air re-programming and over-the-air rekeying across the entire system on a 24/7, 365 basis.

The NOC also provides a platform for maintaining system continuity and integrity which can quickly implement customer changes and manufacturer’s updates as well as ensuring connectivity and interoperability.

Changes in software and hardware will occur over the life of a system brought about in response to changes in user requirements, equipment obsolescence, and new technology developments.  Implementation of configuration management (CM), before a system goes “HOT”, will be critical to ensuring system availability, connectivity, interoperability, reliability, maintainability, and security.  The vital role that a centrally controlled CM plays in maintaining a stable operating LMR system cannot be overstated.  Ad hoc or installation-level changes made in the basic LMR system configuration, without board approval, could inhibit system performance, or, in the worst case, compromise the integrity of the system.

The NOC doesn’t monitor the actual voice or data traffic, it only monitors the health of the system to ensure voice and data traffic can be passed through the system to its intended destination.

With SCI as a premiere Harris RF Communications Network Solutions Provider with the background, experience and expertise to provide a factory like capability for large and small systems we can confidently offer assured communications.