Harris Corporation recently developed a hybrid wireless communications system to provide increased data and voice capabilities to natural gas service provider Washington Gas.
Washington Gas serves more than one million customers from the commercial, industrial, and residential markets of the metropolitan region of Washington, D.C. Its new communications systems connects roughly a thousand utility personnel across company facilities.
Harris combined OpenSky2 and P25 communication technologies to enable seamless and reliable communications across the 26 sites that Washington Gas operates in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The 22 OpenSky2 sites in the Washington, D.C. and Maryland territories are fully interoperable with the standards-based VHF P25 system in the Virginia and West Virginia territories.
To integrate these two different technologies, Harris employed its VIDA network platform to serve as the backbone. A unified IP-based voice and data communication system based on the industry standards set by the P25 system, VIDA delivers full IP management benefits.
The Harris VIDA network integrates the OpenSky2 and P25 systems into a single solution that can meet a broad range of user needs with scalable digital voice trunking capabilities. Washington Gas will uses efficient OpenSky2 communications in the 900 MHz band in metropolitan areas and VHF P25 in rural terrain-challenged regions.
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