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Comms Connect Melbourne: 15-17 October 2024

Comms Connect Melbourne: 15-17 October 2024

Comms Connect brings together those who select, purchase, install and maintain professional and commercial radio communications and public safety equipment.

Comms Connect is recognised as the major conference and expo for radio communications and public safety professionals in the Southern Hemisphere. Serious buyers with significant budgets from a broad range of industries, from marine and aviation to mining and emergency services, visit the event to network with their peers, learn from industry leaders, keep up to date with technology, catch up with existing suppliers and importantly, find new suppliers.

Pre-Conference Workshops: October 15, 2024

Conference and Exhibition: October 16-17, 2024

Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Conference Agenda: View online >>


Pre-Conference Workshops

ARCIA is thrilled to partner with Comms Connect to deliver a series of pre-conference training workshops on Tuesday, 15 October. You can book a pre-conference workshop with your conference ticket or register for them individually on the Comms Connect website.

Join us for these in-depth sessions:

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Workshop: Introduction to P25 Standards and Systems

Presented by: Chris Stevens | Managing Director CartGIS and Vice-President ARCIA

Learner Level: This course is designed for students with basic knowledge of land mobile radio technology and systems. An understanding of how frequencies, antennas systems and transmitters and receivers work is preferred.

Course Objectives: This course introduces the student to the P25 digital land mobile radio standard. Modules include a high-level overview of the P25 digital radio standard as a transmission media including the TIA standards, modulation, vocoders, channel access. An introduction to the P25 standard will be covered including Phase 1 & 2, conventional and trunked system, encryption, system components (e.g., RFSS, ISSI, CSSI etc). The information is introductory in nature and designed for all audiences, however a basic understanding of radio communications would be beneficial.

Certification: There will be no assessment or certification for this course however learners will receive a certificate of participation.

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Workshop: The TAK Imperative: Why Australian Mission Operations will embrace this unifying common operating picture

Presented by:

Ken Rehbehn | Principal Analyst, CritComm Insights;

Jared VandenHeuvel | Innovation & Data Office, Texas Dept of Public Safety;

Charles Laird | First Responder Prog, Nth Carolina Dept of IT;

Neil Jamieson | Group CEO, Hypha

Join an international line-up of TAK experts as they deep dive into a technology that delivers an interoperable unified common operating picture (COP) based on non-proprietary, open-source software developed and continuously updated by the US Department of Defence.

Australian public safety agencies and emergency management organisations can embrace the civilian TAK stream as a unified operational picture that fits in the hands of remote emergency workers, that is available to benefit private-sector users too, such as park operations, marathon organisers, festivals and other large public events.

Hear how this life saving approach to technology use can serve Australia:

  • Learn how to get started with your own TAK server and how to manage users and devices
  • Hear about strategies for deploying TAK on an enterprise scale, from device selection to end user training and adoption
  • Observe in-depth case studies on the use of TAK for special events, law enforcement tactical operations, wildland firefighting, and search and rescue
  • Learn about the large range of communications options for using TAK in remote/off-the-grid conditions
  • Discuss the inclusion of TAK in interoperable communications planning, as a compliment to P25 radio, and as a scalable alternative to proprietary silos

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Workshop: Private LTE/5G – Fundamentals of the Technology & System Designs

Presented by: Simon Lardner | Head of Wireless Business, Vocus

This course will provide students with the skills to be able to outline the key elements and components of a typical wireless broadband communication system. Students will be able to develop the block diagrams and system elements for designing a basic system and demonstrate the expected requirements and outcomes of such a system, both in basic and extended formats.

On completion students will be able to understand and identify the various elements associated with system design, including the relevant spectrum sectors that are associated with wireless broadband and understand the potential outcomes that a relevant to all options that are applicable.

The course will cover –

  • Background to mobile data development
  • History of LTE and 5G technology developments
  • Private LTE/5G and the mobile market segments
  • The benefits of industrial LTE/5G systems
  • Key connectivity advantages
  • Towards the future and 5G and more
  • Basic system design & building blocks
  • Public safety applications of LTE/5G

Certification: There will be no assessment or certification for this course, however learners will receive a certificate of participation.


Workshop: P25 Standards, Systems & Governance used in Public Safety Networks

 Presented by: Cheryl Giggetts | Director PTIG & Principal Consultant, CTA Consultants

This workshop will build upon the success of the P25 panel held at Comms Connect in 2023 and welcomes once again the return of P25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) Director Ms Cheryl Giggetts.

As the past 12 months have proven, despite predictions by government bureaucrats and industry pundits over past years regarding the imminent demise of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) used by Australia’s Public Safety Agencies and its replacement by public safety mobile broadband (PSMB) networks, LMR remains the key technology platform for mission critical voice communications used by agencies and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Workshop will be a valuable forerunner to a presentation to be made by Ms. Giggetts about the P25 Standard during Comms Connect, followed by a Panel Session which will discuss the current and future use of the P25 Standard in Australia and New Zealand.

The Workshop will once again be a valuable forerunner to a presentation to be made by Ms. Giggetts about the P25 Standard during Comms Connect, followed by a Panel Session which will include the opportunity to discuss the current and future use of the P25 Standard in Australia and New Zealand.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Increase your understanding of the purpose of the P25 Standard as an LMR Standard; the governance arrangements around its on-going development and maintenance; access to the P25 Standard; and the overall strategic direction of the P25 Standard.
  • Increase your understanding of the use of the P25 Standard in North America and its potential future development informed by the Statement of P25 User Needs (SPUN) and its alignment with the current use of the P25 Standard in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Consider potential benefits from Australian and New Zealand membership of the USA based P25 User Needs Working Group and P25 Technology Interest Group.

     

     

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    Date - 15th October 2024 - 17th October 2024