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Interoperability & Developing Open Standards Andy Grimmett H EAD OF P RODUCT S TRATEGY Simoco Group 1 Content Interoperability Developing Open Standards Why? Why? Levels What? Verification How? DMR


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Interoperability & Developing Open Standards

Andy Grimmett

HEAD OF PRODUCT STRATEGY Simoco Group

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Content

  • Interoperability

– Why? – Levels – Verification

  • Developing Open

Standards

– Why? – What? – How? – DMR example

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Interoperability

Why?

  • Provides customers with choice of

suppliers

  • Enables manufacturers to develop a

subset of products

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Interoperability

Levels

  • Air interface
  • Infrastructure (ISI)
  • Applications

– Terminals – Infrastructure

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Interoperability

Verification

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Manufacturer Customer Bi-lateral Independent £ Robustness Bi-lateral with review

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Developing Open Standards

Why?

  • To enable interoperability
  • PMR longevity

– Capital investment – PMR & ancillaries – System lifespan – Private but COTS

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Open Standards

What?

– Published specification – Anyone with expertise/resources can implement to realise products – General availability

  • Free
  • Purchase specification
  • Organisation membership fees
  • Royalty or IPR licensing

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Open Standard Success

How?

  • 1. General availability
  • f the standard
  • 2. Critical mass of

suppliers

  • 3. Market demand

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The Digital PMR Landscape

Public Safety

  • TETRA
  • P25

LTE Low Cost Digital

  • DMR
  • dPMR
  • NXDN
  • PDT
  • e-DMR

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DMR Example

  • ETSI Standard
  • Manufacturer Extensions – MFID
  • Interoperability

– Robustness – Goal of “low cost digital”

  • Ongoing standards development

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Criteria for standards success

  • General availability
  • f the standard
  • Critical mass of

suppliers

  • Market demand

 Freely available  IPR licence  DMRA 84 members  37 manufacturers  Analogue migration

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Development

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Summary

Interoperability

  • Choice
  • Robust/Cost

balance

  • Transparency

Open Standards

  • Enables IOP
  • Ensures long term

supply & support

  • Co-operative

enhancements

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Vendor choice & market cost

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Thank you

www.simocogroup.com

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