[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and Washington County, Wisconsin, recently completed the installation and acceptance testing of their $11.5 million P25 public safety communication system.

Harris deployed the eight-site trunked simulcast VHF P25IP (Project 25 to the Power of Internet Protocol) digital system to provide improved mission-critical communications for the county's public safety personnel, which serve more than 131,000 residents across the county's 436 square miles. The system operates on 10 VHF radio channels with enough capacity to accommodate five additional radio channels. Harris also implemented a county-wide law enforcement, fire and EMS conventional simulcast alert paging system.

The Washington County P25IP system is based on the Harris IP-based VIDA® (Voice, Interoperable, Data, Access) network platform and includes geographically-split high-availability network switching servers for increased reliability. The VIDA network is a cost-effective, interoperable radio communications technology that supports P25 and other IP-based systems. It addresses voice and data communications needs of transportation, utility and public safety radio users around the world. It provides a full IP management platform, including interoperability without intervention of console operators; IP consoles; networking technology for both the P25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 technology standards; and other benefits inherent in open IP architecture systems.