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NXDN™ and dPMR
NXDN is a different protocol also based on 4FSK FDMA for 6.25kHz. For further details you are invited to visit their Forum website:www.nxdn-forum.com

dPMR is a digital radio protocol specifically targeting highly functional solutions by using low cost and low complexity technology.


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NEWS - dPMR Association

 

The dPMR Association would like to thank all of it’s members for their kind contribution to help the people effected by the Japanese Earth quake disaster. The funds raised have been donated to the RED CROSS.
So far, the Japanese Red Cross has deployed 115 national disaster response teams, with more than 730 staff members, including doctors and nurses.

In 2012 the Association has made a commitment to help UNICEF the world's leading children's charity. Right now, children across Africa are facing hunger and starvation. The dPMR Association are committed to raise funds to help where it is needed the most.


UK - November 7, 2011

The dPMR MoU is proud to announce that members have agreed to change its name from dPMR MoU to dPMR Association.
The change of name reflects the growth of its membership base over the years.

This group was established in 2007 to provide a forum for all interested parties who wished to support new, very narrow band and digital 6.25kHz FDMA based radio technologies. The group currently includes 14 members, ranging from radio manufacturers, chip manufacturers, protocol and software developers to systems developers. All these members have expressed the common aim of working together to ensure the success of very narrow band 6.25kHz FDMA based technologies.

 

dPMR® MoU Completes a Successful IOP Testing Session
Maldon, UK - April 13, 2011

The dPMR® MOU group is pleased to announce the success of IOP Testing which was performed at CML Microcircuits headquarters.

Formal and ad-hoc testing sessions were held with equipment from Icom, CML and EIL. This brings the number of manufacturers that have performed interoperability testing to four.

Those involved in the sessions declared that the event had been extremely successful.

The Icom Mode 2 equipment presented completed the mandatory testing requirements of the ETSI Interoperability and Conformance standards (TS102 726) and the MoU group agreed to the attribution of the dPMR® trademark.

The models concerned were IC-F4162DT and the IC-FR6100, but as Icom’s dPMR® series radios use identical firmware, it is considered that the series is compliant and can use the trademark.

Testing also demonstrated compatibility between the CML CMX7141 dPMR® baseband processor and the above Icom Mode 2 products.

The dPMR® MoU was established in February, 2007, and currently has a membership of 14 companies from the Land Mobile Radio industry. These members include Kenwood Corporation, Icom Incorporated, Aeroflex Wichita Inc., CML Microcircuits, CTE International, Etherstack Ltd., Fylde Micro Ltd., Shenzhen HYT Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Sicomm, Unication, Wintec Co Ltd, Entel UK Ltd, EIL Company Ltd and Wireless Pacific.


Three more companies join the dPMR® MoU group
Maldon, UK - April 13, 2011

During its recent meeting at CML Microcircuits headquarters, the dPMR® MoU group warmly welcomed three new members, namely Entel UK Ltd (UK-Herts), EIL (Hong Kong) and Wireless Pacific (Hong Kong).

The dPMR® MoU group is growing significantly and these new member entries confirm the development of the 6.25 kHz FDMA around the world and the large support base for this technology.

Despite the enlargement of the group to 14 companies, dPMR® members are keeping to their original intent to provide the best and most cost effective digital solution for today’s millions of analogue radio users worldwide.

Established in 1995, Entel is a fully independent company operating its own design and manufacturing divisions, with distribution to a global market. Ranked among the leading industry brands, Entel brings exacting standards of innovation, quality and excellence to its professional radio communications equipment.

Their UK-based R&D department brings a wealth of top–level expertise to the skill sets of hardware, mechanical, electrical and software engineering, exceeding customer expectations with unique and innovative features. Together with rigorous and uncompromising quality controls, applied throughout every step of the manufacturing process, this all adds up to a formidable range of radio products that has earned worldwide recognition for its quality, performance and high specification

Wireless Pacific provides tactical response radio communications solutions with engineering precision, industrial quality and international expertise for Emergency Services and allied professional two way radio communications users globally. They are headquartered in Hong Kong.

EIL Company Ltd. with headquarters in Hong Kong is developing their own proprietary high quality electronic products in major sectors such as Telecommunication, Automotive Industry, Power management and Medical.
The dPMR® MOU group is pleased to announce the success of IOP Testing which was performed at CML Microcircuits headquarters.

 


NXDN™ Forum and dPMR MoU Collaboration

Suwanee, GA – January 20, 2010 - The Chairman of the NXDNTM Forum recently announced that the NXDN™ Forum and the dPMR MoU have agreed to collaborate on issues of common interest in the promotion of 6.25 kHz FDMA technology.

 

While the two protocols are not compatible with each other, they share the “basic DNA” of being 6.25 kHz FDMA technologies with the purpose of providing spectrum efficiency and the advantages of digital two-way radio.

The NXDN™ Forum was primarily formed to promote and maintain interoperability of the NXDN™ digital protocol in North America. The dPMR MoU was formed for a similar purpose in Europe. There has been some confusion in the media and the market regarding the differences between these two industry groups and the technology. Some basic clarifications are as follows.

• NXDN™ and dPMR (digital Private Mobile Radio) are BOTH 6.25 kHz FDMA technologies.
• NXDN™ and dPMR are not compatible with each other, as the basic air interface format is different.
• NXDN™ is an open-proprietary protocol supported by the members of the NXDN™ Forum.
• dPMR is a European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) open technical standard supported by the members of the dPMR MoU Goup.
• A number of leading LMR industry companies are members of both groups.

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Successful Interoperability between ICOM and Sicomm

Nice, France - May 26, 2010 - The dPMR MoU announced today that during their recent meeting in Nice, France, preliminary interoperability tests were completed successfully between terminals designed by ICOM Inc. and terminals designed with Sicomm Technology Limited's dPMR baseband chip. These terminals are independently designed accordingly to the ETSI DPMR standard TS 102 490 and TS 102 658. Test involves air interface protocol verification and voice communication quality. Complete interoperability accordingly to TS 102 587 ad TS 102 726 is planned in the months to come.

According to Mr. Pete Hizzey, Chairman of dPMR MOU, and ETSI Rapporteur for TS 102 490 and TS 102 658, this was the first time that interoperability tests were successfull between two independent implementations of the dPMR standards. This interoperability test demonstrates that the dPMR standards are unambiguous, rigorous and mature, and not open to misinterpretation.
dPMR is a true open standard for digital radio specifically targeting highly functional solutions by using low cost and low complexity technology. dPMR is narrowband (6.25kHz) FDMA technology that is 100% digital that offers many forms of voice and/or data applications.

ICOM Inc has been a world leader in radio communications for over 40 years. ICOM continues to lead the industry with the development of digital technologies to provide the future in radio communications to the world. In this respect, ICOM was the first manufacturer to offer a dPMR product to the market based on the ETSI standard TS 102 490 and TS 102 658.

Since its inception in 2003, Sicomm has been dedicated in providing quality IC products for wireless communications, especially for the FRS and PMR applications. Sicomm latest digital baseband chip for the dPMR standards, SCT325x, integrates 4FSK modem, vocoder, and protocol stack in a single chip, and offers low power consumption and low cost for the professional and consumer market.

The dPMR MoU was establish in February, 2007, and currently has a membership of 10 companies from the Land Mobile Radio industry. These members include Kenwood Corporation, Icom Incorporated, Aeroflex Wichita Inc., CML Microsystems Plc, CTE International, Etherstack Ltd., Fylde Micro Ltd., Shenzhen HYT Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Sicomm and Unication.

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Interoperability and Conformance testing for dPMR - November 2009

Toulouse, France – November 5, 2009 - The dPMR MoU announced today during their recent meeting in New York, USA, that the MoU was progressing on implementing Interoperability and Conformance testing procedures for current and future dPMR products.

These Interoperability and Conformance procedures are based on the ETSI standard suite TS102 726. These test suites detail the requirements and test procedures for any manufacturer developing a dPMR product, and allow the manufacturer to see if their product is compliant during the development phase if required.

At this time, TS102 587 documents for Tier 1 (TS102 490) and TS102 726 documents for the Tier 2 (TS102 658 Mode 1) dPMR are complete and can be accessed via the ETSI website by ETSI member organizations. dPMR Tier 2 Mode 2 and Mode 3 documents are currently in preparation for a planned publication next year.

The dPMR MoU plans to carry out certification of tested and compliant products which will allow the manufacturer to then display the dPMR logo with their product to show compliance. A list of compliant products will also be made and uploaded to the dPMR MoU homepage in the future to reassure end users that whichever manufacturer’s products they are contemplating will work with other manufacturer’s dPMR products.

More details of the program will be added to the dPMR MoU homepage at a later date.

The dPMR MoU was established in February, 2007, and currently has a membership of 11 companies from the Land Mobile Radio industry. These members include Kenwood Corporation, Icom Incorporated, Aeroflex Wichita Inc., CML Microsystems Plc, CTE international, Etherstack Ltd., Fylde Micro Ltd., HYT, Unication and Sicomm, .

The dPMR MoU was established for the promotion of the dPMR digital air protocol for use with 6.25 kHz narrowband technology.

 

dPMR Standard is Published by ETSI - December 2008

dPMR MoU members are extremely pleased to see that ETSI (the European Telecomms Standards Institute) has just published the European standard for the fully functional, licenced version of dPMR, TS102 658.

Publication of this standard represents another milestone in the unstinting work by members of the MoU.

TS102 658 as an ETSI publication is totally open standard that is backed by the multi-vendor environment of the MoU members. It offers complete functionality including such aspects as repeater networks and infrastructure, managed base station networks (trunking) as well as line and IP based interworking.

Work is also scheduled by ETSI to develop the related interoperability and conformance standards for use with TS102 658 products. These standards should be available by mid 2009.

TS102 658 is freely available for downloading from the ETSI website: http://portal.etsi.org



 

dPMR MoU Group Nearly Doubles in Size - September 2008

At it’s recent meeting in Osaka, Japan, the founding members of the dPMR MoU group (Kenwood Corporation, Fylde Micro, CTE International, CML Microcircuits and Icom Incorporated) were pleased to welcome four new members, namely HYT, Etherstack, Unication and Sicomm.

This development underlines that the support for dPMR narrowband FDMA technology is growing substantially and now includes Europe, Asia and Australasia. Also worthy of note is that the core competences of the MoU members now include all aspects of radio communications, from terminal manufacturers, system design and implementers, chip manufacturers to software and protocol experts.

This significant expansion of the group has come at a time when development of the latest phase of ETSI standardisation work into a fully functional, licenced version of dPMR nears completion (TS102 658).

The signing of this MoU represents the shared wish to promote interoperability between all forms of dPMR equipment through agreement on the type of vocoder to use and the use of ETSI standards for interoperability and conformance testing.