About
March 4th, 2008Project-25 (P25) is an evolving technology standard for public-safety digital radio communications that has been stunted for the last decade by a process that favored one vendor. It has reached a point in its evolution where it must adapt and become a true open standard, or be of limited value.
Our goal is to develop an open-source reference implementation of a P25 trunked radio system controller and ISSI switch. We are an informal alliance of manufacturers, system integrators, consultants and independent engineers that propose a disruptive innovation to overturn the existing trunked radio system controller marketplace by providing equal access to a fully open (and free) reference implementation of the P25 trunking standard.
The open source concept provides a way for competitors to ethically collaborate and it reduces the barrier to entry for many firms to provide complex products. The end result will be improved performance, reliability and functionality of systems that support critical communication for public-safety. Increased competition in the public-safety trunking sector could eventually minimize or eliminate the desire for proprietary systems. Our goal is to make P25 trunking controllers as ubiquitous and affordable as LTR controllers, with the functionality of the most sophisticated proprietary systems.
Contact information:
OpenP25.org 1160 Industrial Road #15 San Carlos, California 94070 phone: 650-423-1210 info@openp25.org