These advanced systems provide more communication capability than ever before.
Radio communications play a very important role in many organizations.
The infrastructures that the portable radios operate through must be available at all times. Communication managers are looking for technologies that monitor the communication equipment at the many remote sites and provide quick notification of failures or degraded-mode operation. It may be programmed to recognize when some operating parameter, e.g. transmitter forward power, degrades below some threshold and initiate an alarm message to the fault management computer. Serial data connections to Premisys or other equipment may also be made. A failure in the prime controller will automatically initiate a message that activates the secondary controller.