Progress at the Hilliard Darby Site
**SYSTEM MAINTENANCE NOTICE*
XO Communications notified COIRS that they will be performing upgrades to the network switches that support our radio system between Saturday 07/18 @ 23:00 and Sunday 07/19 @ 06:00. There will be at least one connectivity interruption of up to 15 minutes during this time frame that will cause the system to go into site trunking. Dispatchers will need to be ready to use back up radios/walkies during this outage. Field units may receive the “SITE TRUNKING” notice on their radios, but can continue to operate on their normal talk-groups.
If you have any questions/concerns about the outages, please contact Jay Somerville
Hilliard/Darby Site Underway
Today crews broke ground for the new Hilliard/Darby tower site. The site, which is a partnership between COIRS and Verizon Wireless, will be a 190′ mono-pole tower with two shelters that will serve both entities and provide much improved public-safety radio and private 3G/4G coverage throughout Hilliard and Norwich Township. Completion is expected by the end of September.
As of today, the concrete pads have been poured and the base for the tower is ready.
Special Meeting Announcement
The COIRS Governing Board will hold a special meeting via teleconference on Thursday 07/02/2015 at 8am. CLICK HERE to review the agenda. Anyone interested in attending the call should contact Board Secretary Jay Somerville for the dialing instructions.
COIRS LE Template Updates
Starting today, we will begin programming the newest version of the LE template into police radios.
For questions, please contact Paul Richmond at prichmond@dublin.oh.us
Board Schedules Special Meeting
The COIRS Governing Board has scheduled a special meeting for Monday April 6th at 9:30am. This will be a teleconference meeting. CLICK HERE to view the meeting agenda.
Anyone wishing to attend this meeting should contact Board Secretary Jay Somerville who can provide the conference bridge instructions.
**SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT**
ALL CENTRAL OHIO INTEROPERABLE RADIO SYSTEM USERS:
XO Communications notified us that they will be performing upgrades to the network switches that support our radio system on Friday March 13th between 00:01 and 06:00. There will be at least one connectivity interruption of up to 10 minutes during this time frame that will cause the dispatch consoles to lose connection and the system to go into site trunking. Dispatchers will need to be ready to use back up radios/walkies during this outage. Field units may receive the “SITE TRUNKING” notice on their radios, but can continue to operate on their normal talk-groups.
Delaware County will be conducting a software upgrade to the system on Tuesday March 17th at 05:00. The system will have connectivity interruptions that will last through 06:00. These interruption will cause the dispatch consoles to lose connection and the system to go into site trunking. Dispatchers will need to be ready to use back up radios/walkies during this outage. Field units may receive the “SITE TRUNKING” notice on their radios, but can continue to operate on their normal talk-groups.
If you have any questions/concerns about the outages, please contact Patrick Brandt, Paul Richmond or Jay Somerville
Radio Programming – Feb 27th
On Friday February 27th, NRECC’s Paul Richmond will complete programming radios at Washington Twp Fire. COIRS is updating the radio templates to accommodate the move by Madison County Fire, Pleasant Valley Joint Fire District and Union County Fire agencies to the MARCS 7x platform. In addition, the new Columbus Fire new talk group plan, new NRECC back up talk groups and other minor changes will be added.
CLICK HERE to view the new unified Northwest Fire template.
**SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT**
ALL CENTRAL OHIO INTEROPERABLE RADIO SYSTEM USERS:
XO Communications notified us that they will be performing upgrades to the network switches that support our radio system on Friday February 13th between 00:01 and 06:00. There will be at least one connectivity interruption of up to 10 minutes during this time frame that will cause the dispatch consoles to lose connection and the system to go into site trunking. Dispatchers will need to be ready to use back up radios/walkies during this outage. Field units may receive the “SITE TRUNKING” notice on their radios, but can continue to operate on their normal talk-groups.
COIRS will be conducting a fiber network upgrade on Monday February 16th at 05:00. The system will have one connectivity interruption that will last up to fifteen minutes. This interruption will cause the dispatch consoles to lose connection and the system to go into site trunking. Dispatchers will need to be ready to use back up radios/walkies during this outage. Field units may receive the “SITE TRUNKING” notice on their radios, but can continue to operate on their normal talk-groups.
If you have any questions/concerns about the outages, please contact Paul Richmond or Jay Somerville
System Upgrade Complete
The upgrade of the COIRS radio network and dispatch center consoles was completed today. Motorola experienced problems bringing the south simulcast up, but we were able to operate Dublin, Hilliard and Worthington off of the Delaware simulcast while the problems were resolved.
All subscribers, talk-groups and consoles are up and fully functional. There are some minor punch list items that remain relating to console configurations that will be resolved tomorrow.
Thank you to Shannon McMellon, Kim Link and the entire team at Motorola and B&C for their excellent work today. Also, thank you to the dispatch staff who worked seamlessly through the interruptions to ensure public safety was never compromised.