NY comptroller urges re-engineering of state-wide radio network
- August 25th, 2008
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An actual image from a Tyco party held for Dennis Kozlowski’s wife
The State of New York has been trying to implement a state-wide radio network for first responders ever since everyone had a really shitty day about seven years ago. Luckily, political infighting and inept contractors have ensured the project will almost never be finished as an audit of Tyco Electronics (not to be confused with the “She was s’pose to buy ya shorty Tyco with ya money” Tyco) found that the system had major problems and could be scrapped.
“After three rounds of failed testing, it is apparent that this system is not ready to move forward. M/A-COM has not met its contractual obligations and New York can’t afford to spend $2 billion on a system that doesn’t work right,” he said.
$2 billion for a state-wide radio system is a bit steep but it is essentially a private cellular network with plenty of failover. However, if the damn thing is failing regularly perhaps they should rethink their vendor. I here FireDog does good install work.
Al (Who am I?)
3 months ago
First of all, Moto wanted over $4B to provide an even worse solution. 2nd, this has nothing to do with cellular. It is an advanced IP driven land mobile radio system. The OFT is the one that dropped the ball by not giving access to the transmission sites until after their own deadlines had passed. NY government ineptness and MOTO political sabotage doomed this from the start.
Chris (Who am I?)
4 weeks ago
First, OFT did not have to give up the sites. It was up to M/A-Com to find tower space. If they could not provide adequate coverage, they were supposed to build towers. Second, neither OFT or MOTO could for almost 44 HOURS of system downtime when it is only supposed to be down for 83 minutes a year. And third, M/A-Com has not made ANY of thier statewide systems work, while Motorola has. It was doomed because M/A-Com is not capable of making it work in NY or anywhere.