Tait DMR for Silvercomm's Melbourne network

Silvercomm, which supports organisations across the greater Melbourne area with its MPT network, will upgrade to a DMR system - The Silvercomm CLEARCALL Network - using Tait equipment, as part of plans to enhance its service quality levels.

“We wanted to move forward, with our customers, and take advantage of the features and quality that digital technology brings, with a smooth migration to DMR,” says Peter Crook, Silvercomm sales and marketing manager.

“We chose DMR as we wanted an internationally proven, interoperable, open-standard technology that would allow us to continue to provide our customers with choice,” Crook said.

Tait Communications, with distributor Logic Wireless, is supplying a nine-site UHF DMR Tier 3 trunked voice and data network. The network is due to be completed and customer-ready by late-December 2013.

Silvercomm will manage the migration of its customers from the existing TaitNet MPT 1327 trunked analog service to the new DMR digital service. The first 200 vehicles are expected to be connected to the network in January 2014. The MPT network will continue to operate alongside the new DMR network so that Silvercomm customers can migrate to the new network at the time that suits them best.

With an additional two sites added to the Silvercomm network via IP linking, commercial customers on the new DMR network will benefit from improved digital audio quality and greater coverage, which means they can communicate wherever and whenever their operations require. While the focus is primarily on voice, DMR has inherent data capabilities which Silvercomm will leverage by providing basic ‘screen type’ data features such as short data service (SDS) messaging and GPS.