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FECC briefs commissioners on 800 MHz upgrades, edge redundancy and dispatcher staffing shortages
Summary
Flathead County’s 911 center (FECC) updated commissioners on an 800 MHz radio-system upgrade with ‘edge’ redundancy, a recent regional trunking outage, the APCO operational assessment and current dispatcher staffing gaps; leaders said quotes from Motorola and hiring progress are imminent.
Elizabeth Brooks, representing the Flathead Emergency Communications Center (FECC), updated commissioners on the county’s 800 MHz radio modernization project, recent system outage analysis, an APCO operational assessment and staffing and call-volume trends.
Brooks said updated engineering for the 800 MHz project is complete and the county is awaiting a final quote from Motorola; once received, project timelines and equipment orders will move forward. A planned element of the upgrade is “edge functionality,” which Brooks described as a mini master site that provides local redundancy if connectivity to primary master sites is lost. She said the functionality is not dependent on cell towers and would be housed in the FECC data center; it would act like a connectivity…
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