Advatech Pacific, Inc.

Advatech Pacific demonstrates Communications Interoperability to
First Responders

Riverside County Sheriff Reviews uGATE in California

Riverside, California May 22, 2007. Advatech Pacific, Inc. engineers recently demonstrated its Universal Gateway to Telecommunications Equipment (uGATE) product to the Riverside (California) County Sheriff's department. Of particular interest to the Sheriff, represented by Chief Deputy Craig Kilday, Lieutenant Henry Sawicki, and Deputy James Lanning, was the ability of the uGATE to interconnect disparate radio systems so that they could communicate with one another. The Sheriff's deputy provided one of its radios to Advatech on a Thursday and by the next afternoon that radio could interoperate with both the Military's SINCGARS and a Motorola Walkie-Talkie through Advatech Pacific's uGATE device.

"Our problem is that each public service agency in the county has its own radio system and none of them talk to others," said Sheriff Lieutenant Henry Sawicki. Deputy

Sheriff James Lanning added, "When we get called in to an event or incident, it's already pretty bad. Not having interoperable communications just makes it worse-harder to get control." Using the uGATE C-Kit version, Dr. Joe Holland of Advatech Pacific demonstrated to Lt. Sawicki the interoperability between the military SINCGARS and the Sheriff's radio system

(M/A-Com model 7100). "We put the smarts in the cable," said Dr. Holland. "With our approach, all the new guy has to do is bring us his radio, connect the interface cable, and start talking." It's almost that simple, with the exception that the cable has to be built in

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