Telecommunication Systems – Competencies
Our firm has been providing RF system planning and engineering to numerous public safety and transportation agencies across the USA for four decades. Soon after our firm became an integral part of the KEMA family, our sibling firm that provides a wide variety of management and technical consulting to the public utility sector found that their clients could value from our experience in this discipline.
KEMA Inc. and Macro Corporation share a strong commitment to helping the utility industry provide and maintain reliable and secure wireless voice and data communications systems for a wide spectrum of applications…from maintenance and plant security to metering and work-order management…that are as good as, if not even better than, comparable public safety systems. Macro’s consultants support our sibling firm using use our large suite of telecommunication system engineering tools to plan, design, and assist in the procurement and implementation of, the following utility telecommunication system technologies:
- Wireless Land Mobile Radio – conventional or trunked systems delivering private, secure, interoperable, voice and mobile data communications over a wide area via one or more tower sites placed in the aggregate jurisdiction of the user agency or agencies.
- All frequency bands (VHF, UHF, T-Band, 700/800/900 MHz)
- All major system suppliers (Motorola, M/A-Com, EF Johnson, etc.)
- Single site, multi-site, and simulcast repeater configurations
- APCO Project 25, SmartNet™/ SmartZone™, OpenSky™, VIDA™, LTR™
- Wireless Broadband Data Systems – public and private wide-area networks for broadband speed mobile data, live video, etc.
- Mesh networks (802.XX)
- WiMAX™
- Advanced Wireless Services (AWS)
- Wireless Cellular Systems – public, subscription-based, cellular telephone networks for voice and data communications.
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G (AT&T, T-Mobile)
- 1x-RTT/EV-DO (Verizon, Sprint)
- Backhaul Interconnect Networks – local and wide-area connection of communication carriage to and between control centers, maintenance shops, network operations centers (NOCs), and traffic management centers.
- Private fiber optic systems (single and multi-mode; OC-3 to OC-192)
- Licensed microwave datalink (6-32 GHz; OC3 to OC12)
- Spread spectrum datalink (UHF & 960 MHz; 4.9 & 5.8 GHz; fractional T1 to T3).
- Public, subscriber-based IP broadband services (Verizon, AT&T, etc.)
- Broadband-over-Power Lines (BPL)
