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Project 25 ( P25 or APCO-25) is a suite of standards for communications designed for use by in. P25 radios are a direct replacement for analog (example ) radios but add the ability to transfer data as well as voice, allowing for a more natural implementation of or messaging. P25 radios are commonly implemented by organizations, such as, and emergency rescue service, using vehicle-mounted radios combined with handheld use.Starting around 2012, products became available with the newer phase 2 protocol, the older protocol known as P25 became P25 phase 1. P25 phase 2 products use the more advanced AMBE2+ vocoder, which allows audio to pass through a more compressed and provides two voice channels in the same RF bandwidth (12.5 kHz), while phase 1 can provide only one voice channel. The two protocols are not compatible. However, P25 Phase 2 infrastructure can provide a 'dynamic transcoder' feature that translates between Phase 1 and Phase 2 as needed. In addition to this, phase 2 radios are backwards compatible with phase 1 modulation and analog modulation, per the standard.

On the other hand, area created the standard for similar to Project 25.P25 fills a similar role as or protocols. Contents.Suite of standards overview History Public safety radios have been upgraded from to since the 1990s because of an increased use of data on radio systems for such features as GPS location, text messaging, metering, and encryption.Various user protocols and different made it difficult for Public Safety agencies to achieve interoperability and widespread acceptance. However, lessons learned during disasters the United States faced in the past decades have forced agencies to assess their requirements during a disaster when basic infrastructure has failed.

To meet the growing demands of public safety digital radio communication, the United States (FCC) at the direction of the initiated a 1988 inquiry for recommendations from users and manufacturers to improve existing communication systems. Based on the recommendations, to find solutions that best serve the needs of public safety management, in October 1989 APCO Project 25 came into existence in a coalition with:. (APCO). (NASTD). (NTIA). (NCS). (NSA).

(DoD)A steering committee consisting of representatives from the above-mentioned agencies along with FPIC ( Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communication), and the 's (NIST), Office of Law Enforcement Standards was established to decide the priorities and scope of technical development of P25. Introduction. Several hand-held Project 25 radios used around the world.Interoperable emergency communication is integral to initial response, public health, community safety, national security and economic stability. Of all the problems experienced during disaster events, one of the most serious is poor communication due to lack of appropriate and efficient means to collect, process, and transmit important information in a timely fashion. In some cases, radio communication systems are incompatible and inoperable not just within a jurisdiction but within departments or agencies in the same community. Non-operability occurs due to use of outdated equipment, limited availability of radio frequencies, isolated or independent planning, lack of coordination, and cooperation, between agencies, community priorities competing for resources, funding and ownership, and control of communications systems.

Recognizing and understanding this need, Project 25 (P25) was initiated collaboratively by public safety agencies and manufacturers to address the issue with. P25 is a collaborative project to ensure that are interoperable. The goal of P25 is to enable public safety responders to communicate with each other and, thus, achieve enhanced coordination, timely response, and efficient and effective use of communications equipment.P25 was established to address the need for common digital public safety radio communications standards for first-responders and homeland security/emergency response professionals.

The 's engineering committee facilitates such work through its role as an ANSI-accredited (SDO) and has published the P25 suite of standards as the TIA-102 series of documents, which now include 49 separate parts on Land Mobile Radio and TDMA implementations of the technology for public safety. “Project 25 (P25) is a set of standards produced through the joint efforts of the (APCO), the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), selected federal agencies and the National Communications System (NCS), and standardized under the (TIA). The P25 suite of standards involves digital Land Mobile Radio services for local, state/provincial and national (federal) public safety organizations and agencies.P25 is applicable to LMR equipment authorized or licensed, in the U.S., under NTIA or FCC rules and regulations.Although developed primarily for North American public safety services, P25 technology and products are not limited to public safety alone and have also been selected and deployed in other private system application, worldwide.”P25-compliant systems are being increasingly adopted and deployed.

Radios can communicate in mode with legacy radios, and in either or analog mode with other P25 radios. Additionally, the deployment of P25-compliant systems will allow for a high degree of equipment interoperability and compatibility.P25 standards use the proprietary (IMBE) and (AMBE+2) voice codecs which were designed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. To encode/decode the analog audio signals. A hand-held Project 25 radio used in US systems.P25-compliant technology has been deployed over two main phases with future phases yet to be finalized.Phase 1 Phase 1 radio systems operate in 12.5 kHz digital mode using access method.

Phase 1 radios use Continuous 4 level (C4FM) modulation—a special type of 4 modulation —for digital transmissions at 4,800 and 2 per symbol, yielding 9,600 bits per second total channel throughput. Of this 9,600, 4,400 is voice data generated by the codec, 2,800 is forward error correction, and 2,400 is signalling and other control functions.

Receivers designed for the C4FM standard can also demodulate the 'Compatible quadrature ' (CQPSK) standard, as the parameters of the CQPSK signal were chosen to yield the same signal at symbol time as C4FM. Phase 1 uses the voice codec.These systems involve standardized service and facility specifications, ensuring that any manufacturers' compliant subscriber radio has access to the services described in such specifications. Abilities include and interoperability with other systems, across system boundaries, and regardless of system infrastructure. In addition, the P25 suite of standards provides an open interface to the radio frequency (RF) subsystem to facilitate interlinking of different vendors' systems.Phase 2 To improve spectrum use, P25 Phase 2 was developed for trunking systems using a 2-slot scheme and is now required for all new trunking systems in the 700 MHz band.

Phase 2 uses the voice codec to reduce the needed bitrate so that one voice channel will only require 6,000 bits per second (including error correction and signalling). Phase 2 is not backwards compatible with Phase 1 (due to the TDMA vs FDMA operation), although TDMA radios and systems are capable of operating in Phase 1 FDMA when required. A subscriber radio cannot use TDMA transmissions without a time source, therefore direct radio to radio communications (talkaround) resorts to FDMA. And subscriber radios can also resort to narrow-band FM being the least common denominator between almost any two way radio. This could make analog narrow-band FM the de facto 'interoperability' mode for some time.Originally the implementation of Phase 2 was planned to use 6.25 kHz of bandwidth per frequency allocation, or FDMA. However it proved more advantageous to use existing 12.5 kHz frequency allocations in TDMA mode for a number of reasons. First it eliminated a huge administrative process of reallocating frequency assignments at the FCC for existing Phase 1 users.

Second it reduced the amount of base station transmitters as only one transmitter is needed to broadcast two voice slots. And third it allowed subscriber radios to save battery life by only transmitting half the time which also yields the ability for the subscriber radio to listen and respond to system requests between transmissions.Phase 2 is what is known as 6.25 kHz 'bandwidth equivalent' which satisfies an FCC requirement for voice transmissions to occupy less bandwidth. Voice traffic on a Phase 2 system transmits with the full 12.5 kHz per frequency allocation, as a Phase 1 system does, however it does so at a faster data rate of 12 kbit/s allowing two simultaneous voice transmissions. As such subscriber radios also transmit with the full 12.5 kHz, but in an on/off repeating fashion resulting in half the transmission and thus an equivalent of 6.25 kHz per each radio. This is accomplished using the AMBE voice coder that uses half the rate of the Phase 1 IMBE voice coders.Beyond Phase 2 From 2000 to 2009, the (ETSI) and TIA were working collaboratively on the Public Safety Partnership Project or Project MESA (Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications), which sought to define a unified set of requirements for a next-generation aeronautical and terrestrial digital wideband/broadband radio standard that could be used to transmit and receive voice, video, and high-speed data in wide-area, multiple-agency networks deployed by public safety agencies. The final functional and technical requirements have been released by ETSI and were expected to shape the next phases of American Project 25 and European DMR, dPMR, and TETRA, but no interest from the industry followed, since the requirements could not be met by available commercial off-the-shelf technology, and the project was closed in 2010. During the, the FCC allocated 20 MHz of the 700 MHz radio band spectrum to public safety networks.

The FCC expects providers to employ for high-speed data and video applications. Conventional implementation P25 systems do not have to resort to using in band signaling such as (CTCSS) tone or (DCS) codes for access control. Instead they use what is called a Network Access Code (NAC) which is included outside of the digital voice frame. This is a 12 bit code that prefixes every packet of data sent, including those carrying voice transmissions.The NAC is a feature similar to CTCSS or DCS for analog radios. That is, radios can be programmed to only pass audio when receiving the correct NAC. Project 25 Technology Interest Group. Archived from on 2009-02-10.

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APCO International Project 25 page. APCO Canada. Daniels' P25 Radio System Training Guide. Some ways of avoiding P25 interoperability challenges. P25 Compliance Test Tools for ISSI. P25 Protocol Stack Software. DVSI P25 Vocoder Software and Hardware.

Radio users and experts discuss P25 Phase 2.