ACU Interoperability Products
Raytheon JPS Communications’ ACU technology provides the foundation to solve your communications interoperability needs. Our flagship product is the ACU-1000 which can interconnect up to 24 devices. If you need a smaller solution, the ACU-T has much the functionality of the ACU-1000 but in a smaller, more portable design. Coupled with our radio over internet protocol (RoIP) / voice over internet protocol (VoIP) products, the ACU-1000 can be networked to provide hundreds of nodes for larger applications and for wide area interoperability systems (WAIS).
Raytheon JPS Communications designs, manufactures and sells electronic hardware and software products that enhance the effectiveness of high frequency (HF) radio and land mobile radio (LMR) communications systems. HF radio equipment is ideal for long distance communications, and is used by the military and government agencies. LMR equipment is better suited for short distance communications, and is used by federal and local government agencies, such as police and fire departments, railroads, commercial businesses and military groups worldwide.
Our products include: intelligent interconnects, RoIP/VoIP technology, radio/telephone interface units, voice modulation recognition systems, voting products, HF pre/postselectors, switch matrices, transportable products and noise reduction systems. These radio interconnect products facilitate communications between two-way radios (HF and VHF/UHF) and various other media, such as other radios, cellular, landline telephone, NEXTEL and SATCOM. JPS’ signature product, the ACU-1000 Intelligent Interconnect System, provides interoperability between multiple radio systems operating on different frequencies to simplify communications for public safety, military and railway as well as federal and local governments.
Applications
Independence Communications can serve your operability and interoperability needs with many system configurations. Whether your application calls for a fixed site installation or a small, transportable one, we can support you with the right system at the right budget. Our application categories are:
Interoperability Applications
- ACU-1000: All of our interoperability products have a common building block, our time-tested, proven, unsurpassed ACU-1000 technology.
- Fixed Site: If your application calls for a comprehensive interoperability system in a permanent installation, this is the solution we recommend.
- Transportable: If your interoperability needs call for fast response, smaller size, in remote locations, a transportable system is the way to go. Our TRP family of products is a good example. They offer superior versatility and fast installation.
- Mobile: JPS offers mobile configurations that feature fully interoperable communications systems in a van, bus, or other vehicle of your choosing. We can help you design the mobile configuration that best meets the needs in your areas of geographic coverage.
- Wide Area Interoperability System (WAIS): JPS also supports your wide area communications needs, including intra-state, state-to-state, and coast to coast interconnectivity.
Operability Applications
- Voter Systems: We offer a number of solutions to achieve the best signals for transmitting and receiving your communications. Our proven voter systems are a good example.
VoIP Technology
VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, which is a means of digitizing voice signals and sending them over a digital network. The digital network can be a LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), or the Internet itself. The NXU-2 and NXU-X embodies this VoIP technology in a way that enables communications radios to be interconnected across the room or around the world. The PortaLink is an extension of the NXU-2, incorporating it with a wireless network to allow a radio’s voice and RS-232 at a remote location to be linked to an ACU-1000.
Radio/Telephone Interface Units
The phone patch family uses a digital signal processor (DSP) to dynamically provide a broadband hybrid null, thus eliminating VOX falsing and other problems that are characteristic of other phone patches.
VMR-12A Voice Modulation Recognition Unit
The VMR-12 Voice Modulation Recognition Unit is packaged in a 19 inch EIA standard rack-mounted Eurocard cage. A Power Supply Module and up to twelve VMM-2 Voice Modulation Recognition Modules are plugged into the card cage backplane. Each VMM-2 Module provides the next generation of reliable speech detection capability in noisy audio signals by using state of the art Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques. Each module’s DSP is capable of accurately detecting speech, including the elusive first syllable, in any of the following audio sources: in audio received by a radio; in a noisy phone line; in a tape recording made under adverse conditions; or in an intercom system being used in a high ambient background noise environment.
Voting Products
The SNV selects the input channel with the best quality audio based on the DSP computed signal-to-noise ratio of the incoming audio signals.
PPS-100 Pre/Postselector
The PPS-100 Pre/Postselector permits operation of co-located receivers and transmitters on frequencies separated by as little as 10%. When used with receivers, the unit functions as a preselector, providing an additional front end selectivity stage. This reduces the receiver desensitization and overload that would normally occur in the presence of strong adjacent RF transmissions. The unit is used as a postselector with transmitters. It rejects spurious outputs and broadband noise in the transmit signal before it reaches the power amplifier, thereby limiting interference to neighboring receivers. The PPS-100 performs both functions with a transceiver; it follows the radio’s key line and switches between the preselector and postselector modes.
MTX-1616 Audio/Digital Switch Matrix
Our’ MTX-1616 Audio/Digital Switch Matrix provides a flexible single-unit answer to the need for different switching circuits for each of the many configurations. The unit has been designed to switch both audio controls and control signals simultaneously; the standard configuration contains both a 16x16 audio switch matrix and a 16x8 delay matrix.
TRP-1000 Transportable Radio Interconnect
The TRP-1000 Transportable Radio Interconnect System provides radio interoperability during missions requiring communications between diverse organizations using different radios and different frequencies. The system package consists of one or more transportable cases and includes multiple radios pre-wired to JPS Communications’ ACU-1000 Intelligent Interconnect Unit. The radios, which cover all frequency bands can be cross-connected through the ACU-1000.
NRU-600 DSP Noise Reduction Unit
The NRU-600 is an advanced audio signal processor that provides maximum flexibility to eliminate or reduce most types of interference from voice, CW and data transmissions. The unit uses a high speed Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to provide simultaneous bandpass filtering, noise reduction and multiple tone/heterodyne removal. An automatic Notch filter removes multiple heterodynes from tune-ups, adjacent channel carriers, CW, RTTY, or similar signals without interfering with voice signals when a voice bandwidth has been selected. The notch filter operates in 5 milliseconds or less. Two noise reduction algorithms are provided in the NRU-600: an FD (Frequency Domain) algorithm and a TD (Time Domain) algorithm; to give the operator the best audio noise reduction possible.
Product Case Studies
NYPD: Tunnel Communications
The ACU-1000 is used to provide communication at a simulated train tunnel accident between rescuers in the train and coordinators above ground.
City of Chicago: TRP-1000
The TRP-1000 fixes the ineroperability problems that plague the City of Chicago.
NYPD: High Rise Communications
The new JPS PortaLink along with the ACU-1000 allows the NYPD to communicate between officers on the ground and in a high rise building. |
