DMR  |  2012-10-05

DMR Association added a new service to website: Interoperability Testing

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

The association decribes the benefits of IOP testing for all end users and companies involved in the DMR Communications technology.

The Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Association developed the DMR Interoperability (IOP) Process in order to ensure users and equipment suppliers would benefit from a truly open multi-vendor market for DMR equipment. A healthy, competitive, open, multi-vendor market brings proven benefits to users such as choice of equipment, choice of supplier, continuous development of new products with increased functionality and improved price performance.
 
For manufacturers, it provides a growing market and eliminates different and incompatible implementations of the DMR standard. The Interoperability process provides a formal and consistent test mechanism that enables competing manufacturers to test that their products are compatible. One of the purposes of the DMR IOP Process is to encourage competition. It creates a market of multiple and mutually compatible products. It enables customers to have the ability to select the most appropriate products for their needs and to be confident that these products are compatible with each other.

Users can be sure that products awarded a DMR Interoperability (IOP) Certificate have been rigorously tested and the functions listed in the certificate are interoperable. This allows users who select equipment from a number of suppliers to reduce the amount of system integration and testing that they need to undertake and gives them confidence that should they incorporate a second supplier in future that existing equipment will not become obsolete.
 
For more information please visit our website: http://dmrassociation.org

Source: www.dmrassociation.org