Project 25 Users Panel Bill Bowens, ITS Project Manager Information Technology Services Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board International Wireless and Communications Expo College of Technology Las Vegas, Nevada FINAL Project 25 Technology Interest Group 1
Agenda About the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport About the Airport s Project 25 Radio system s Interface with the Region That it Serves Project 25 Benefits to s RF Future Project 25 Technology Interest Group 2
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Fast Facts 30 square miles 165,000 passengers daily 60,000 employees World Rankings: 3 rd in terms of operations 8 th in terms of passengers 2 nd in terms of land mass Incorporated as a city (DFWAirport) EOC built to coordinate large events V3.1 Project 25 Technology Interest Group Communications/Security Statistics Highest Risk Regional Terrorist Target 600 Public Safety Radios 150 Passenger Busses 60+ SkyLink Peoplemover Trains 600 Airport Operations radios 200 Maintenance/Engineering/Admin 4000 CCTV camera systems 9 FLIR thermal imaging perimeter surveillance Cameras 3
Dedicated P25 System Project 25 700 MHz FAA Site P25 Core Downtown Dallas DART (redundant) 700 MHz P25 Ph I FDMA Trunking (1) P25 Core (2) RF Sites Not geographically accurate. Project 25 Technology Interest Group 4
Portable Coverage Ft Worth Dallas Project 25 Technology Interest Group 5
+ P25 Regional Overlay Project 25 700 MHz Project 25 Denton Site 700 MHz Denton County P25 Regional Overlay McKinney Site Collin County FAA Site Fort Worth Site Tarrant County Not geographically accurate. P25 Core (redundant) P25 ISSI Downtown Dallas DART City of Dallas P25 Core Dawson Site Dallas County 700 MHz P25 Ph I FDMA Trunking (2) P25 Cores P25 ISSI (6) RF Sites Project 25 Technology Interest Group 6
Project 25 Benefits to Project 25 Supports Regional Emergency Preparedness Project 25 Common Air Interface (P25 CAI) allows radios from regional partners using P25 radios from different manufacturers to roam to and from P25 system coverage Project 25 ISSI enables connectivity with City of Dallas in support of regional interoperability Project 25 ISSI enables expanded coverage for users should that be needed in a regional disaster Project 25 Supports Increased Security and Reliability Multiple layers of coverage increases reliability for Users P25 AES End to End Encryption enables secured communications Project 25 Supports Cost Effectiveness Through Resource Sharing Project 25 enabled use of State of Texas 700 MHz frequencies Dual Purpose Network used for both and regional interoperability Project 25 Technology Interest Group 7
s RF Future Continuing to explore ways of further leveraging gproject 25 Tackling governance and operational aspects of managing a jointly owned regional network Fleetmapping, access management, controls, Inter Local Agreements Looking at the future and how we can take advantage of public safety broadband and LTE Project 25 Technology Interest Group 8
Thank You! Questions? Project 25 Technology Interest Group 9