{"id":28110,"date":"2024-04-18T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parsons.com\/?p=28110"},"modified":"2024-05-29T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:55:25","slug":"mastering-lmr-backhaul-networks-essential-lessons-from-decades-of-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parsons.com\/2024\/04\/mastering-lmr-backhaul-networks-essential-lessons-from-decades-of-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Backhaul Networks: Essential Lessons From Decades Of Experience\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When boots are on the ground in a crisis, a split-second interruption in communication can be the difference between a first responder hearing \u201cshoot\u201d when the order was \u201cDon\u2019t shoot.\u201d That is why an up-to-date and operationally robust Public Safety Radio System is essential to maintaining the high standards of reliability and quality of service that mission-critical operations demand. At Parsons, our decades of experience in engineering and maintaining these systems have put us in the driver’s seat in the evolution and challenges of radio system networks. Conversations with our customers on their networks tend to start out the same way. So, we wanted to distill our years of expertise into five key lessons to help anyone in the business maintain public safety communications systems and stay up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first use of radio for public safety use came from the Detroit Police Department in 1921. It was an experiment by a pioneering commissioner \u2013 and it was a failure. It was not until 1928 that the basic system became functional and usable, setting in motion the eventual adoption of radio communications by every police department and emergency services organization in the nation. It also set in motion decades of innovation and change in radio technology. Radios became more portable, reliable, and affordable. Systems became more functional and stable. New capabilities emerged such as the ability to carry digital data. Nowadays, these radio networks resemble the large service provider networks of cellular carriers (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc.) where reliability, quality of service and diverse functionality is critical. And still today, LMR remains the best way to deliver highly reliable, mission critical mobile communications \u2013 especially in difficult environments. Ultimately, it\u2019s the mission of these networks and the requirements surrounding that mission that makes them unique and why land mobile radio remains the primary technology in use. Public safety requires uptime and performance requirements that far exceed those of ordinary mobile service providers \u2013 and most other network providers as well. As a result, their design, engineering, and support requirements also surpass their cellular service provider brethren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n