Partnership produces dPMR equipment

Fylde Micro (Blackpool, England) and Icom (Osaka, Japan) have announced the Mode 3 dPMR equipment.

The components consist of Fylde Micro’s 4th-generation controller MultiLingo and Icom’s dPMR Mode 3-capable IDAS series of terminals and repeaters.

The combined product suite is the first based on the open ETSI TS 102 658 Tier 2 Mode 3 dPMR standards and will currently be the first trunking and networking capable system to be based on the ETSI digital two-way radio standards outside TETRA.

The initial system capability will be a high-quality trunked and networked radio system ranging in size from a single up to 16-site multisite trunking operation. Further enhancements planned for 2012 will see the system scope expand to an unlimited number of sites (a theoretical maximum of up to 1000 sites/500,000 subscribers) with telephone interconnect and other features.

The equipment is claimed to be unique in that it offers an immediate migration path from MPT to dPMR without the requirement of any MPT operation in the IDAS terminals.

The MultiLingo controller will be able to encode/decode analog MPT signals to and from digital dPMR signals and vice versa. This provides the advantage of not requiring a parallel infrastructure set-up to allow an MPT and the dPMR digital system to work together.